Patent ID: 7264293

Claim:
A device for connecting a vehicle seat to a vehicle floor comprising: a locking element being connected to one of a seat side part and a guide rail of the vehicle seat and being actuatable by means of an unlocking lever; at least one connecting element attached to the vehicle floor, the connecting element being operable to be brought into engagement with the locking element; a slide control element which acts between one of the seat side part, the guide rail of the vehicle seat, the locking element and the unlocking lever; wherein the slide control element, in a locking position and in a first phase for unlocking the vehicle seat by actuating the unlocking lever up to a predetermined intermediate position of the unlocking lever, maintains the lock between the connecting element and the locking element and is, upon actuation by means of the unlocking lever, operable to move the locking element in a longitudinal direction with respect to the one of the seat side part and the guide rail into the intermediate position: wherein the slide control element, in a second phase, for unlocking the vehicle seal is operable to switch the locking element, by pivoting the locking element, into an unlocking position in which the lock between the connecting element, the locking element and the one of the seat side part and the guide rail of the vehicle seat is cancelled.