Joseph Galea

US Patent:

53322908, Jul 26, 1994

Filed:

Aug 31, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/937047

Inventors:

Hans J. Borlinghaus - Mt. Clemens MI
Joseph T. Galea - Auburn Hills MI
Thomas B. Blake - Mt. Clemens MI

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

International Classification:

A62B 3504

US Classification:

297473

Abstract:

A vehicular bench seat is supported on two spaced adjustment tracks in a vehicle for fore and aft position adjustment. A seat belt buckle moves with the seat during position adjustment. The buckle is connected to a slider-body which, in turn, is slideably carried along a track attached to the underbody of the vehicle. When a load is applied to the seat belt buckle, the slider body is pivoted into engagement with a tooth bar adjacent the track to lock the slider body and the buckle relative to the underbody. A drag link pivotally extends from the slider body and connects to the seat bottom for moving the slider body and the attached buckle in unison with the seat during fore and aft position adjustment.

US Patent:

58553495, Jan 5, 1999

Filed:

Jun 16, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/876873

Inventors:

James Peter Nini - Clinton Township, Macomb County MI
Joseph Michael Heilig - Macomb MI
Joseph Tarry Galea - Kewadin MI

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

International Classification:

F16M 1300

US Classification:

248429

Abstract:

A manual seat adjuster with easy entry mode and position memory has an improved means to hold the spring loaded lock bar out of engagement with the locking teeth during the return trip of the front seat. At the beginning of the easy entry mode, as a rear seat entering passenger begins to slide the front seat forward, the lock bar initially rotates open, while the memory marker remains fixed in place. A window on a carrier arm rotatable with the lock bar circumferentially aligns itself with a keeper on a stationary latch, but the latch keeper is temporarily pushed to the side and out of the aligned window by engagement with a stop member on the stationary memory marker. As the seat begins to move forward, the latch moves away from the stop member and the keeper moves into the carrier window, where it can catch and hold the carrier arm to hold the lock bar open during the return trip of the front seat.