Patent ID: 8800949

Claim:
An adjustable memory track assembly for a vehicle seat including: at least one lower rail fixedly attached to a vehicle support structure; at least one upper rail fixedly attached to the vehicle seat bottom, and slidably mounted in one of the at least one lower seat rails; a track locking system including at least one locking assembly fixedly attached to one of the at least one pair of upper and lower rails, disposed within the other of the pair of rails, and configured to lock the first rail of the pair in a variety of longitudinal positions with respect to the other rail of the pair; a first actuator operably connected to the seat track locking system, the first actuator including an elongate release lever attached externally to one of the pairs of nested upper and lower rails and an activation bracket connected to the release lever and movable between a non-activated position and an activated position whereby the activation bracket disengages the seat track locking system to allow slidable longitudinal movement of the seat; a memory system mounted on one of the at least one pair of rails within the nested pair and engageable with the other of the pair of rails upon activation to record the longitudinal travel of the seat; a second actuator including an activation lever mounted externally of the nested rail pair for movement from a disengaged position to an engaged position in which the memory module is activated and the seat track locking system is disengaged, to thereby allow forward movement of the seat from the user selected location to a more forward location, and thereafter allow rearward movement of the seat back to, but not past, the user selected location, and a reset lever mounted externally of the pair of nested upper and lower rails to which the memory system is mounted, which reset lever is mounted for movement from an inactive position to an active position whereby the reset lever locks the memory system in its activated condition, and wherein the reset lever is moved from its active to inactive position, and the memory system is thereby reset, only by operation of the first actuator.