Patent ID: 6719350
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
A compensator for lack of parallelism in a removable vehicle seat including two rigid lateral endplates, crossmembers connecting the endplates, means of positioning the endplates in a slideway fixed to a floor of the vehicle, translational guidance means, and means of locking the endplates in the slideway, the crossmembers being tubular and cylindrical and collaborating with bearings of the endplates, the compensator comprising:a cylindrical and stepped axial endpiece disposed at an end of each of the crossmembers; a sleeve made of viscoelastic material pushed tightly into the bearing in the corresponding endplate, the sleeve receiving the endpiece; an axial tapped hole formed in the endpiece; a screw received in the hole for translational immobilization pressing an outer washer against an outer end face of the sleeve and an inner end face of the sleeve toward a flange of the endpiece.