Patent ID: 6260672
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
A vehicle seat of a vehicle with an adjusting mechanism of said vehicle seat, said adjusting mechanism is provided with a) an electromotor having a driving moment, b) a step-down gear and c) an adjusting device having a first adjusting element and a second adjusting element, which second adjusting element may be adjusted relative to said first adjusting element, wherein said adjusting mechanism is additionally provided with a constantly engaged brake that is leading to a braking moment on a shaft driven by said electromotor in both senses of rotation of said electromotor, said braking moment being chosen so as to be considerably smaller than said driving moment of said electromotor on said shaft but so as to be bigger than any passive torques occurring on said shaft during normal operation of said vehicle due to all kinds of acceleration and loads acting on said vehicle seat, said brake having a dynamometer a) encompassing, but for a slot running in an axial plane, a cylindrical part of said shaft to be braked and b) having a flexible means acting in said slot and squeezing it and a friction area being provided between said cylindrical part and said dynamometer.