Removable vehicle seat and vehicle comprising such a seat

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1999-07-19

2001-08-28

Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Seats with body modifications

C297S217300

Reexamination Certificate

active

06279981

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to removable vehicle seats and to vehicles comprising such seats.
More particularly, the invention concerns an automobile vehicle removable seat, comprising anchorings adapted to enable rapid mounting and dismantling of the seat on the vehicle bodywork, by mounting and dismantling movements where at least one lower part belonging to the seat is moved along a pre-specified direction, the so-called mounting direction.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The document EP-A-0 546 908 describes an example of such a seat, of the type of those used currently to constitute the rear seats of modular passenger compartment automobile vehicles.
These known seats do not include any electrical equipment, in order to avoid electrical connection and disconnection difficulties during the installation or removal of the seat by the user.
The result is that these removable seats are provided with fewer functionalities than fixed seats for automobile vehicles.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The particular object of the present invention is to ease these disadvantages.
To this end, according to the invention, a seat of the type in question is mainly characterized in that it comprises in addition at least one electrical circuit supplied with electrical current by means of a two terminal electrical connection device which is fixed on said lower part of the seat, this connection device being adapted:
to be connected to an electrical connection device mounted on the vehicle bodywork, by mutual engagement in the mounting direction, due only to the mounting movement of the seat;
and to disconnect from the connection device mounted on the bodywork, by only the dismantling movement of the seat in said mounting direction.
By means of these arrangements, the removable seat according to the invention can be provided with all the functionalities available on fixed electrical seats, without however the connection and disconnection of the electrical circuit of the seat requiring any additional operation whatever by the user during the mounting and dismantling of the seat.
In preferred embodiments of the seat according to the invention, resort can possibly be made to one and/or other of the following arrangements:
the electrical circuit of the seat is adapted to interact with a central electronic processing unit carried by the vehicle, by modulation of the seat electrical current supply;
the mounting direction is vertical.
Furthermore, the invention also has the object of an automobile vehicle comprising a bodywork on which is fixed at least one seat such as defined above, the vehicle bodywork including at least one connection device which is connected to the seat connection device by engagement in the mounting direction, and the vehicle comprising moreover a central electronic processing unit which is adapted to connect with the seat electrical circuit by modulation of the current supply.
In preferred embodiments of the vehicle according to the invention, resort can possibly be made moreover to one and/or other of the following arrangements:
the vehicle bodywork comprises several connection devices, and the central electronic processing unit is adapted to recognize the connection device belonging to the bodywork, to which the seat connection device is connected;
the vehicle bodywork comprises at least one location able to receive the removable seat positioned either frontward or backwards, the seat connection device being placed so as to be in two different positions relative to said location according to the positioning of the seat, and the vehicle bodywork comprising two connection devices corresponding respectively to said two possible positions of the seat connection device;
the bodywork comprises at least one slide able to receive the removable seat enabling it to slide, this slide comprising at least one movable component which is adapted to follow the sliding movement of the seat and which carries the connection device belonging to the bodywork.


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