Patent ID: 8820694
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A seat slide structure for a vehicle, comprising: a first rail and a second rail, one of the first and second rails being fixed to a vehicle body to extend along a frontward-rearward direction of the vehicle body and the other of the first and second rails being fixed to a seat and adapted to be relatively movable in the frontward-rearward direction with respect to the vehicle body; a screw rod provided in the first rail; a nut member screwed with the screw rod in a relatively rotatable manner with respect to the screw rod; and a holding member provided in the second rail to hold the nut member, wherein: the second rail has a first wall provided at a position on a first one of opposite sides in a widthwise direction thereof, and a second wall provided at a position on a second of the opposite sides in the widthwise direction and disposed opposed to the first wall, at least one of the first wall and the second wall having an opening; the opening includes a nut-receiving hole adapted to allow a part of the nut member to be inserted therein; and the nut member is disposed such that an axial direction thereof is oriented in the frontward-rearward direction to have a frontwardly-facing front surface and a rearwardly-facing rear surface, and wherein the part of the nut member to be inserted into the nut-receiving hole includes a part of the front surface and a part of the rear surface, the part of the front surface being disposed opposed to a front inner side-surface of the nut-receiving hole, the part of the rear surface being disposed opposed to a rear inner side-surface of the nut-receiving hole.