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CN219191986U - Automobile seat with one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism - Google Patents

Automobile seat with one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism Download PDF

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CN219191986U
CN219191986U CN202223250417.2U CN202223250417U CN219191986U CN 219191986 U CN219191986 U CN 219191986U CN 202223250417 U CN202223250417 U CN 202223250417U CN 219191986 U CN219191986 U CN 219191986U
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王春明
秦杰
张桂兰
贺显亮
胡慧琴
曾雪桂
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The utility model relates to an automobile seat with a one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism, which comprises a seat cushion assembly, a backrest assembly, a slide rail unlocking rod, an angle adjuster, an unlocking mechanism, a pulling sheet and a pulling rope, wherein the unlocking mechanism is connected with the angle adjuster, the pulling sheet is connected with a core piece of the angle adjuster through a connecting device, the rear end of the pulling rope is connected with the pulling sheet, the front end of the pulling rope extends forwards to be connected with the slide rail unlocking rod, the pulling sheet is an lengthened pulling sheet, the bottom end of the pulling sheet extends to the edge of a side plate, the surface of the side plate at the front side of the pulling sheet is fixedly connected with a pulling rope spring fixing plate for positioning the pulling rope and a tension spring, a pulling rope guiding hole extending along the horizontal direction is arranged at the lower side of the pulling rope spring fixing plate, the rear end of the pulling rope passes through the pulling rope guiding hole and then is connected with the bottom end of the pulling sheet, and when the unlocking mechanism unlocks the angle adjuster, the pulling rope swings and pulls the pulling rope to move forwards and backwards on the same straight line along the pulling rope guiding hole to unlock the pulling rope. The cable unlocking sliding rail force can be reduced, the cable unlocking efficiency is improved, and the requirement of a new platform on one-key unlocking can be met.

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Automobile seat with one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism
Technical Field
The utility model relates to an automobile seat, in particular to an automobile seat with a one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism.
Background
The existing automobile seat with the one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism comprises a seat cushion assembly, a backrest assembly, slide rails, angle adjusters, unlocking mechanisms, a poking piece, a guy rope and slide rail unlocking rods, wherein one side of the bottom end of the backrest assembly is hinged with the seat cushion assembly through the angle adjusters, the two slide rails are respectively connected with the bottom ends of two sides of the seat cushion assembly, and the slide rail unlocking rods are arranged on the inner sides of the two slide rails. The unlocking mechanism is connected with the angle adjuster, the unlocking mechanism is usually a one-key unlocking mechanism, the pulling sheet is connected with the angle adjuster rotating shaft 12, the upper end of the pulling rope is obliquely connected with the bottom end of the pulling sheet, the lower end of the pulling rope is connected with the unlocking rod of the sliding rail, the angle adjuster is unlocked when the unlocking mechanism is operated, the rotating shaft 12 of the angle adjuster rotates to drive the pulling sheet to rotate, the pulling sheet rotates to pull the pulling rope, the unlocking rod of the sliding rail is unlocked when the pulling rope is pulled, the sliding rail is unlocked, the backrest assembly is completely unlocked when the backrest is forwards turned for 42 degrees, the position of the backrest before unlocking is shown in the position of the backrest after unlocking.
However, the prior art has the following defects: 1. the length of the sliding rail unlocking rod is short, the required unlocking force is large, as shown in fig. 2, the sliding rail unlocking rod unlocking force f1=100deg.N, and the arm of force L1=196.7mm; the inhaul cable unlocking force arm L2=53.8mm; calculating the inhaul cable unlocking force F2= 365.6N by calculating F1=F2=L2, wherein the inhaul cable unlocking force value is too large; 2. the one-key unlocking synchronism is low, the cable arrangement is unreasonable, the cable fixing plate strength and durability are insufficient, as shown in fig. 3, the initial position B1 of the plectrum, the position B2 of the plectrum after unlocking, the initial position A1 of the cable before unlocking and the position A2 of the cable after unlocking are not on the same straight line, the cable stroke ratio is low, the hanging spring support is positioned at the rear side of the plectrum, the cable fixing support 7 is positioned at the front side of the plectrum, the hanging spring support and the cable fixing support 7 are separated, the part strength is insufficient, the part quantity is too many to be arranged, the plectrum size is smaller, and the cable stroke is smaller; referring to fig. 4, a position C1 in fig. 4 is a position before unlocking the slide cable fixing plate, a position C2 is a position after unlocking the slide cable fixing plate, the front end of the cable is connected with the slide cable fixing plate in an inclined manner, a connecting line Q between a direction P in which the cable extends and a stress point before and after unlocking the slide cable fixing plate is not on the same straight line, and a component force in the vertical direction only acts on the slide cable fixing plate during unlocking the cable, so that the tension required by the cable is large; 3. the prior art scheme has a plurality of parts, can not meet the use requirement of a new platform framework, has the phenomenon of mutual interference of the parts, and can not meet the use requirement of the new platform due to overlarge backrest unlocking angle.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to overcome the defects in the prior art, and provides the automobile seat with the one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism, which can reduce the force of a inhaul cable unlocking slide rail, improve the inhaul cable unlocking efficiency and meet the requirement of a new platform on one-key unlocking.
The technical scheme adopted by the utility model for achieving the purpose is as follows: the utility model provides a take car seat of a key unblock slide rail mechanism, including the seatpad assembly, the back assembly, the slide rail release lever, the angle modulation ware, release mechanism, the plectrum, the cable, the bottom one side of back assembly is articulated with the seatpad assembly through the angle modulation ware, two slide rails set up respectively in seatpad assembly both sides bottom, the slide rail release lever sets up inboard at two slide rails, release mechanism is connected with the angle modulation ware, the plectrum passes through connecting device and is connected with the angle modulation ware core, the cable rear end is connected with the plectrum, the cable front end extends forward and is connected with the slide rail release lever, the plectrum is the extension plectrum, the plectrum bottom extends to angle modulation ware lower fixed plate edge, the sideboard surface fixedly connected with of plectrum front side is used for locating cable and extension spring fixed plate, the cable spring fixed plate is equipped with the cable guiding hole that extends along the horizontal direction back after the cable guiding hole, the cable rear end passes with the plectrum bottom and is connected, when release mechanism unblock angle modulation ware, the back assembly rotates forward, in the back assembly rotation, the limit baffle of assembly downside promotes the plectrum and swings, the plectrum is pulled forward to the same straight line on the guide bar pull on the back, the slide rail release lever is realized.
The utility model further adopts the technical scheme that: the whole ear-shaped structure that is of plectrum, when angle modulation ware unblock, limit baffle of back assembly downside promotes plectrum swing, and plectrum and cable tie point's in the back-and-forth swing in-process highly unchangeable in vertical direction.
The utility model further adopts the technical scheme that: the stay cable spring fixing plate comprises a fixing plate and a connecting plate formed by outwards bending and extending the front end of the fixing connecting plate, the fixing plate is fixedly connected to the surface of the side plate through welding, the stay cable guide hole is formed in the position, close to the bottom end, of the connecting plate, and the tension spring positioning hole is formed in the position, close to the top end, of the connecting plate.
The utility model further adopts the technical scheme that: the front end downside of seatpad assembly is connected with the cushion cable fixed plate, and cushion cable fixed plate below is equipped with slide rail cable fixed plate, and slide rail cable fixed plate passes through connecting device and slide rail unlocking lever fixed connection, and the cable front end extends forward to cushion cable fixed plate place and passes the cushion cable fixed plate downwards again, and the cable continues downwardly extending to be connected with slide rail cable fixed plate, and the extending direction of cable between cushion cable fixed plate and slide rail cable fixed plate is P to, and slide rail cable fixed plate is the connecting wire and the P coincidence of stress point around the unblock.
The utility model further adopts the technical scheme that: the unlocking force arm of the sliding rail unlocking rod is 251mm.
The utility model further adopts the technical scheme that: the unlocking force arm of the inhaul cable is 85.7mm.
The automobile seat with the one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism has the following beneficial effects: 1. by adopting the structure, the unlocking force of the sliding rail and the unlocking force of the inhaul cable are both reduced to a certain extent, and the unlocking force of the sliding rail is reduced to 79N from 100N and the unlocking force of the inhaul cable is reduced to 232N from 365N through tests; 2. the original pulling sheet has short unlocking stroke, the pulling sheet is a lengthened pulling sheet, the pulling cable stroke is increased when the pulling sheet rotates in the unlocking process, the pulling cable arrangement is optimized, the pulling cable unlocking efficiency is improved, and the pulling cable unlocking efficiency can meet the requirements of a new platform; 3. the travel efficiency ratio of the inhaul cable in the original scheme is low, after the structure is adopted, the front and rear inhaul cables and the connecting section of the pulling piece move back and forth on the same straight line, and the travel efficiency ratio of the inhaul cable is high; 4. the utility model combines the tension spring fixing plate and the inhaul cable fixing plate into a whole to form the inhaul cable spring fixing plate, thereby not only reducing the number of parts, but also increasing the strength and durability of the parts.
The utility model relates to an automobile seat with a one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism, which is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a prior art car seat with a one-key unlocking slide mechanism;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the track and track release lever of the car seat of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of the attachment of a paddle to a cable of the car seat of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a cable and track release lever connection of the car seat of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of an automobile seat with a one-key unlocking slide mechanism according to the present utility model;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the track and track release lever of the car seat of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is a schematic illustration of the attachment of a paddle to a cable of the car seat of FIG. 5;
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the cable and track release lever connection of the car seat of FIG. 5;
reference numerals illustrate: the seat cushion comprises a 1-backrest assembly, a 2-seat cushion assembly, a 3-slide rail unlocking rod, a 4-slide rail, a 5-stay rope, a 6-rotation center, a 7-stay rope fixing support, an 8-plectrum, a 9-hanging spring support, a 10-seat cushion stay rope fixing plate, an 11-stay rope spring fixing plate, a 12-angle adjuster rotating shaft, a 13-slide rail stay rope fixing plate, a 14-angle adjuster lower fixing plate, a 15-limit retainer ring, a 16-shaft sleeve and a 17-limit retainer plate.
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As shown in fig. 5 to 8, the automobile seat with the one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism comprises a seat cushion assembly 2, a backrest assembly 1, a slide rail 4, a slide rail unlocking rod 3, an angle adjuster, an unlocking mechanism, a poking plate 8 and a guy cable 5. One side of the bottom end of the backrest assembly 1 is hinged with the seat cushion assembly 2 through an angle adjuster. Two slide rails 4 are respectively arranged at the bottom ends of two sides of the seat cushion assembly 2, and the slide rails 4 are connected in the vehicle through a connecting device. The slide rail unlocking rod 3 is arranged on the inner sides of the two slide rails 4, the unlocking mechanism is connected with the angle adjuster, the unlocking mechanism is a one-key unlocking mechanism, and the angle adjuster and the unlocking mechanism are of the existing structure and are not described in detail herein. The plectrum 8 is connected with the angle adjuster core piece through a connecting device, the connecting device is a shaft sleeve 16 connected outside the core piece, the plectrum 8 is connected outside the shaft sleeve 16, and one end of the shaft sleeve 16 is welded with a limiting retainer ring 15. When the angle adjuster is unlocked, the backrest assembly 1 rotates forwards, and in the forward rotation process of the backrest assembly 1, the limit baffle 17 at the lower side of the backrest assembly 1 pushes the shifting piece to swing.
As shown in fig. 6, the whole length of the slide rail unlocking rod 3 is lengthened, the unlocking force arm L2 of the slide rail unlocking rod 3 is 251mm, and L2 is the projection distance from the rotation center 6 of the slide rail unlocking rod 3 to the front end of the slide rail unlocking rod 3. The unlocking force arm L1 of the inhaul cable 5 is 85.7mm, and L1 is the projection distance from the rotation center 6 of the sliding rail unlocking rod 3 to the joint of the inhaul cable 5 and the sliding rail unlocking rod 3.
As shown in fig. 5, 7 and 8, the rear end of the pull rope 5 is connected with the pulling piece 8, and the front end of the pull rope 5 extends forwards to be connected with the slide rail unlocking rod 3. The plectrum is the extension plectrum, and the plectrum bottom extends to the fixed plate 14 edge under the angle modulation ware, and the plectrum is whole to be the auricular structure, and the integrative punching press of sheet metal component that says so forms the structure of similar people's auricular. The sideboard surface fixed connection of plectrum front side is used for fixing a position cable 5 and the cable spring fixed plate 11 of extension spring, and cable spring fixed plate 11 is equipped with the cable guiding hole that extends along the horizontal direction near the downside. The guy cable spring fixing plate 11 comprises a fixing plate and a connecting plate formed by outwards bending and extending the front end of the fixing connecting plate, the fixing plate is fixedly connected to the surface of the side plate through welding, the guy cable guide hole is formed in the position, close to the bottom, of the connecting plate, the tension spring positioning hole is formed in the position, close to the top, of the connecting plate, one end of the tension spring is connected with the poking piece, and the other end of the tension spring is connected with the tension spring positioning hole of the guy cable spring fixing plate 11. The rear end of the stay cable passes through the stay cable guide hole and then is connected with the bottom end of the pulling piece, when the angle adjuster is unlocked, the limiting baffle 17 at the lower side of the backrest assembly 1 pushes the pulling piece to swing, the height of the pulling piece and the stay cable connecting point in the vertical direction is unchanged in the process of swinging the pulling piece back and forth, namely the rear end of the stay cable keeps linear motion, and the travel of the stay cable is optimized. When the unlocking mechanism unlocks the angle adjuster, the backrest assembly 1 rotates forwards, and in the forward rotation process of the backrest assembly 1, the limiting baffle 17 at the lower side of the backrest assembly 1 pushes the shifting block to swing, the shifting block swings to pull the inhaul cable to move forwards and backwards on the same straight line along the inhaul cable guide hole, and the inhaul cable pulls the sliding rail unlocking rod 3 to unlock the sliding rail. In fig. 7, B1 is an initial position of the pulling piece, B2 is a position after the pulling piece is unlocked, A1 is a position before the pulling rope is unlocked, and A2 is a position after the pulling rope is unlocked. The fixed plate of cable and extension spring unites two into one and sets up in plectrum front side, not only the intensity of fixed plate that strengthens, and plectrum rear side no longer is equipped with the extension spring fixed plate at this moment, reserves back travel baffle backward upset space, like the K department position in fig. 7, can satisfy new platform demand.
The front end of the inhaul cable passes through the lower part of the seat cushion assembly and then extends downwards to be connected with the slide rail unlocking rod 3. The specific connection mode is as follows, and the front end downside of seat pad assembly is connected with cushion cable fixed plate 10, and cushion cable fixed plate 10 below is equipped with slide rail cable fixed plate 13. The slide rail cable fixing plate 13 is fixedly connected with the slide rail unlocking rod 3 through a connecting device, the front end of the cable extends forwards to the position of the seat cushion cable fixing plate 10 and then downwards passes through the seat cushion cable fixing plate 10, and the cable continues to extend downwards to be connected with the slide rail cable fixing plate 13. The extending direction of the stay cable between the pad stay cable fixing plate and the slide rail stay cable fixing plate 13 is the P direction, the connecting line of the stress points of the slide rail stay cable fixing plate 13 before and after unlocking coincides with the P direction, as shown in fig. 8, the position C1 in the figure is the position before unlocking the slide rail stay cable fixing plate 13, and the position C2 is the position after unlocking the slide rail stay cable fixing plate 13. The extension direction of the inhaul cable and the connecting line of the stress points of the slide rail inhaul cable fixing plate 13 before and after unlocking are in the same straight line, and the inhaul cable unlocking force is totally applied to the slide rail inhaul cable fixing plate 13, so that the inhaul cable locking force is not decomposed, and the inhaul cable unlocking force is smaller.
After the structure is adopted, the inhaul cables are reasonably arranged, the inhaul cable unlocking force is reduced, and the one-step unlocking synchronism is higher; and the welding space of the parts is reasonably arranged, the use of the parts is reduced, the size of the slide rail unlocking rod 3 is prolonged, and the slide rail unlocking operation comfort is further improved. Through the test, the unlocking force of the front end of the sliding rail is reduced from 100N to 79N, and the unlocking force of the inhaul cable for unlocking the sliding rail is reduced from 365.6N to 232N. The backrest assembly 1 is unlocked through the angle adjuster, when the angle adjuster is unlocked through the unlocking mechanism, the backrest always rotates forwards, the limiting baffle 17 pushes the pulling piece to swing, the pulling piece swings to pull the pull rope, the pull rope pulls the slide rail unlocking rod 3, the backrest assembly 1 is turned forwards to unlock the slide rail at 35 degrees, the backrest is convenient for passengers to enter/exit, the position A of the backrest before unlocking is shown in fig. 5, and the position B of the backrest after unlocking is shown.
The above embodiments are merely preferred embodiments of the present utility model, the structure of the present utility model is not limited to the forms of the above embodiments, and any modifications, equivalents, etc. within the spirit and principle of the present utility model should be included in the protection scope of the present utility model.

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1. The utility model provides a take car seat of one key unblock slide rail mechanism, including seat cushion assembly (2), back assembly (1), slide rail (4), slide rail unblock pole (3), the angle modulation ware, release mechanism, plectrum (8), cable (5), bottom one side of back assembly (1) is articulated with seat cushion assembly (2) through the angle modulation ware, two slide rail (4) set up respectively in seat cushion assembly (2) both sides bottom, slide rail unblock pole (3) set up in two slide rail (4) inboard, release mechanism is connected with the angle modulation ware, plectrum (8) are connected with angle modulation ware core through connecting device, cable (5) rear end is connected with plectrum (8), cable (5) front end forward extension is connected with slide rail unblock pole (3), characterized in that, plectrum (8) bottom extends to angle modulation ware lower fixed plate edge, the sideboard surface fixed connection of plectrum (8) front side is used for location cable and extension spring fixed plate (11), cable fixed plate (11) downside is equipped with and follows the horizontal direction and follows back guide hole, cable (5) and rotate in the back assembly and rotate at back assembly (1) the time, cable (1) rotates forward, release mechanism is connected with cable (1), the limiting baffle (17) at the lower side of the backrest assembly (1) pushes the poking plate (8) to swing, the poking plate (8) swings to pull the inhaul cable (5) to move back and forth on the same straight line along the inhaul cable guide hole, and the inhaul cable (5) pulls the slide rail unlocking rod (3) to unlock the slide rail (4).
2. The automobile seat with the one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the whole plectrum (8) is of an ear-shaped structure, and when the angle adjuster is unlocked, the limiting baffle (17) on the lower side of the backrest assembly (1) pushes the plectrum (8) to swing, and the height of a connecting point of the plectrum (8) and the inhaul cable (5) in the vertical direction is unchanged in the front-back swinging process of the plectrum (8).
3. The car seat with the one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the cable spring fixing plate (11) comprises a fixing plate and a connecting plate formed by outwards bending and extending the front end of the fixing connecting plate, the fixing plate is fixedly connected to the surface of the side plate through welding, the cable guide hole is arranged at the position close to the bottom end of the connecting plate, and the tension spring positioning hole is arranged at the position close to the top end of the connecting plate.
4. A car seat with a one-key unlocking slide rail mechanism as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that the lower side of the front end of the seat cushion assembly is connected with a seat cushion cable fixing plate (10), a slide rail cable fixing plate (13) is arranged below the seat cushion cable fixing plate (10), the slide rail cable fixing plate (13) is fixedly connected with the slide rail unlocking rod (3) through a connecting device, the front end of the cable (5) extends forwards to the position where the seat cushion cable fixing plate (10) is located and then passes through the seat cushion cable fixing plate (10) downwards, the cable (5) continues to extend downwards to be connected with the slide rail cable fixing plate (13), the extending direction of the cable (5) between the seat cushion cable fixing plate and the slide rail cable fixing plate (13) is the P direction, and the connecting line of the stress points of the slide rail cable fixing plate (13) before and after unlocking coincides with the P direction.
5. An automobile seat with a one-key unlocking slide mechanism according to claim 4, characterized in that the unlocking moment arm of the slide unlocking lever (3) is 251mm.
6. A car seat with a one-key unlocking slide mechanism according to claim 5, characterized in that the unlocking moment arm of the cable (5) is 85.7mm.
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