Reclining car seat hinge

Details Reclining car seat hinge Reclining car seat hinge

1999-07-30

2000-06-20

Cranmer, Laurie K.

Chairs and seats

Movable back

Tiltable

475162, 475341, B60N 202

Patent

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060768894

ABSTRACT:
A reclining car seat hinge for a chair is disclosed. The hinge includes a pair of leaves having respective circular recesses formed with respective toothed peripheries, an annular planetary gear having a central hole defined therein and arranged in the circular recesses of the face-to-face leaves and engaged with the toothed peripheries of the recesses, a carrier ring rotatably pressed into the central hole of the annular planetary gear and having a central axis and an inner periphery coaxial with the central axis, an gear-shaft interlock arranged within the inner periphery and connected with the carrier ring in such a way that the carrier ring is movable but non-rotatable relative to the gear-shaft interlock, at least one spring having a first end connected to the carrier ring and a second end connected to the gear-shaft interlock, and a shaft extending through the leaves and non-rotatably connected to the gear-shaft interlock off center from the central axis of the carrier ring.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5536217 (1996-07-01), Droulon et al.
patent: 5611747 (1997-03-01), Bauer et al.
patent: 5725452 (1998-03-01), Droulon et al.
patent: 5871414 (1999-02-01), Voss et al.

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