Patent ID: 9469221
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: B60N

Claim Text:
1. A fitting system for a vehicle seat, the fitting system comprising: at least one fitting which has a first fitting part and a second fitting part which are lockable to each other and are rotatable relative to each other about an axis; a spring arrangement producing a torque; a transmission rod, the rotation of which, during an unlocking operation, unlocks the fitting counter to the torque which follows a spring arrangement characteristic and is produced by the spring arrangement; a hand lever for initiating the unlocking operation, the actuation of which hand lever rotates the transmission rod; and a shaped spring effective between a first component and a second component which, during the unlocking operation, rotate, relative to each other, wherein the torque produced by the shaped spring follows a non-linear shaped spring characteristic which, together with an at least approximately linear spring arrangement characteristic of the spring arrangement, results in an overall characteristic, wherein, during the unlocking operation, because of the non-linear shaped spring characteristic, the shaped spring first produces a closing torque and then an opening torque.