Patent ID: 9713967
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: B60N

Claim:
1. A vehicle seat motion system for loading cargo into a vehicle, the vehicle seat motion system comprising: a vehicle seat including a bottom, a seat front and a seat back coupled to the seat bottom to pivot about relative to the seat bottom, the seat bottom being adapted to slide back and forth along a vehicle floor; a remote interface unit; a sensor unit coupled to the vehicle seat to sense an arrangement of the vehicle seat relative to the vehicle floor; an actuator unit coupled to the seat bottom to cause the seat bottom to slide selectively relative to the vehicle floor; a controller configured to receive a signal from the remote interface unit, activate the actuator unit in response to a sensed force applied to the seat back to facilitate sliding the vehicle seat back and forth along the vehicle floor to a predetermined arrangement, and deactivate the actuator unit in response to sensing the vehicle seat at the predetermined arrangement so that storage space in the vehicle is maximized while time and effort expended by a user is minimized; and a force sensor unit coupled to the controller and configured to detect the sensed force applied to the seat back or seat front and generate signals indicative of an amount and pattern of the sensed force, wherein the controller is further configured to receive the signals from the force sensor unit and activate the actuator unit and wherein activation of the actuator unit facilitates rearrangement of the vehicle seat to the predetermined arrangement to allow for cargo storage in front of or behind the seat.