Patent ID: 7090059

Claim:
A powered slide rail device in combination with a floor of vehicle, comprising: a lower rail means for fixation to said floor of vehicle, said lower rail means having at least one lateral wall and a horizontally bottom wall; an upper runner rail means slidably engaged with said lower rail, such that said upper runner means is slidably movable along said lower rail; at least one electrode plate having a longitudinally extending body with a flat surface, said at least one electrode plate being provided in said lower rail means such that a transverse width thereof extends upward from said bottom wall of the lower rail means and said longitudinally extending body thereof extends along said at least one lateral wall of said lower rail means in a parallel relation therewith; a biasing means; a contact brush means being provided in said upper runner rail means, said contact brush means being resiliently biased by said biasing means to a slidable contact with said flat surface of at least one electrode plate in a direction orthogonal therewith; wherein said transverse width of said at least one electrode plate is larger than the surface of said contact brush means contacting said at least one electrode plate, and an output connector electrically connected with said contact brush means.