Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Seats with body modifications
Reexamination Certificate
2009-09-09
2011-10-18
Patel, Kiran B. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Seats with body modifications
Reexamination Certificate
active
08038197
ABSTRACT:
A power seat apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail, an upper rail, a screw member, a feed nut member fixed to the lower rail and meshed with the screw member, a retention member fixed to the upper rail, a fitting member rotatably held by the retention member and fixed to the screw member, a gear box mounted on the retention member and rotatably supporting an output rotation member, a drive unit transmitting a rotation drive force to the screw member, and first and second cut-and-lifted portions formed at first and second longitudinal walls of the upper rail respectively, the cut-and-lifted portions making contact with the fitting member when a load is applied to the screw member in an axial direction thereof to distribute the load to the upper rail, the cut-and lifted portions being formed by bending portions of the first and second longitudinal walls.
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Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
Patel Kiran B.
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