Patent ID: 8454071

Claim:
A slide mechanism for use with a vehicle armrest, comprising: a guide retention plate having guide retention features; a guide follower plate having a guide follower and being in an overlapping arrangement with the guide retention plate; an elongated guide in sliding engagement with the guide follower and having opposite ends aligned along a slide direction, each one of the opposite ends being retained by a different one of the guide retention features such that movement of the elongated guide in all directions transverse to the slide direction is restricted by the guide retention features, wherein one of the guide retention features includes a stop located at one end of the elongated guide; and a spacer located at the opposite end of the elongated guide so that the elongated guide lies between the stop and the spacer, wherein the spacer limits the amount of movement of the elongated guide with respect to the guide retention plate in the slide direction and away from the stop so that retention of said one end of the elongated guide is maintained by its corresponding guide retention feature.