Patent ID: 8727443

Claim:
A locking element for a vehicle seat for locking a backrest to a seat part, the backrest to a body of the vehicle, or some combination thereof, comprising a rotatably mounted rotary catch which interacts in a locking manner with a pin fixedly coupled to the seat part, to the body of the vehicle, or some combination thereof, and a rotatably mounted latching pawl which secures the rotary catch in a locking position, wherein: before an accident and with the rotary catch in the locking position, the rotary catch is engaged with the pin; and during an accident, an impact directs the rotary catch and the latching pawl to be displaced parallel to a main plane of extension of a housing of the vehicle seat in which the rotary catch and the latching pawl are situated, with the locking position maintained between the rotary catch and the latching pawl, and the rotary catch and the latching pawl are each rotatably mounted about a bearing on the housing, wherein the bearings are deformed by their interaction with the rotary catch, the latching pawl, or some combination thereof, during the accident, and each of the bearings comprises a bush, a sliding bush, an inner circumference, and an outer circumference, and wherein the inner circumference interacts with the bush, and the outer circumference interacts with a hole of the rotary catch or a hole of the latching pawl.