Patent ID: 6547331
Filing Date: 2003-04-15
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
In combination with a vehicle seat having a floor which includes a seat storage area allowing the vehicle seat to be stored therein to widen a space in the floor and a seat home position area allowing the vehicle seat to be set therein to enable a passenger to sit on the vehicle seat,an arrangement for securing a long slide rail device to said floor, wherein said long slide rail device includes a long lower rail means having a forward region corresponding to said seat storage area and a rearward region corresponding to said seat home position area; wherein said long slide device includes an upper rail means slidably fitted in said long lower rail means, said upper rail means being fixed to said vehicle seat to allow movement of the vehicle seat along the long lower rail means in a direction between said seat storage area and home position area; wherein a first support leg means is fixed to said long lower rail means at said forward region and extends downwardly therefrom, terminating in an end firmly attached to said floor; wherein a second support leg means is fixed to said long lower rail means at said rearward region and extends downwardly therefrom, terminating in an end firmly attached to said floor; wherein a third support leg means is fixed to said long lower rail at a point between said first support leg means and said second support leg means, said third support leg means extending downwardly from the long lower rail to a level adjacent to and apart from said floor; and wherein said long lower rail means is fixed by said first and second leg means to said floor in such a manner as to extend above the floor in parallel relation therewith.