Patent ID: 6375265
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
An armrest for a motor vehicle seat, which is capable of pivoting with its end designed as a disk about a bearing journal arranged in a housing, after the release of a locking device by raising the other end of the armrest in the direction towards the seat surface, into a release position, and from there, by again raising in the direction of the seatback of the vehicle seat, about a specific pivot angle between two contact edges, into a locked position of use, characterized in thata) the locking device includes a setting piston, capable of being moved approximately radially to the bearing journal in a cylindrical aperture, and under the effect of an engagement spring, with a transverse aperture and a locking slide capable of displacement therein; b) the setting piston is provided with an engagement projection at the end opposed to the engagement spring, and engages with this engagement projection in an engagement recess under the effect of the engagement spring; c) the locking slide is capable of displacement in the transverse aperture of the setting piston, between two limbs of a pivot angle of a first contact edge, into a locking position, for the release of the armrest, displacing the setting piston against the effect of the engagement spring which is then still further pre-tensioned, and; d) the locking slide is capable of displacement by a second contact edge into the position of use, releasing the setting piston to take effect on the engagement spring, leading to the locking of the armrest.