Patent ID: 6505805
Filing Date: 2003-01-14
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
A vehicle seat slide for use with a vehicle seat assembly mounted thereon, said vehicle seat slide comprising:a movable track member slidably engaging a fixed track member for longitudinal sliding movement of said movable track member relative to said fixed track member along a longitudinal axis between a rearward track position, an intermediate track position, and a forward track position; a track locking means mounted on one of the fixed and movable track members and having one or more detent portions selectively engageable with a corresponding number of slots formed on the other of said fixed and movable track members to respectively receive, in blocking engagement, one each, said one or more detent portions in generally transverse relation to said longitudinal axis, so as to define a locking configuration of said track locking means, at which locking configuration said longitudinal sliding movement of said movable track member relative to said fixed track member is restrained, said track locking means further comprising a biasing means adapted to bias said track locking means toward said locking configuration; actuator means mounted on said movable track member in operative connection with said track locking means for movement between an actuating configuration whereat said actuator means urges said track locking means away from said locking configuration against the action of said biasing means, and a rest configuration whereat said actuator means permits said track locking means to move toward said locking configuration; control means operatively mounted on said fixed track member for co-operative contact of said control means and said actuator means so as to cause said actuator means to be held in said actuating configuration upon said movable track member being moved to said forward track position and for thereafter permitting said actuator means to return to said rest configuration only after movement of said movable track member to a position rearward of said intermediate track position.