Patent Application
20160039315
The invention relates to a commercial vehicle seat with a seat part, a backrest part and a seat substructure to be arranged on a body part of a commercial vehicle, in which the seat substructure comprises a lateral swinging means with a cross carriage part, which can be swung transversely to the longitudinal extension of the commercial vehicle and by which at least the seat part is mounted such that it can swing on a base support part of the seat substructure transversely to the direction of travel, and comprises a locking means for fixing the cross carriage part on the base support part.
Generic commercial vehicle seats are already known from the prior art, the seating comfort for a passenger requiring improvement when travelling across difficult terrain by means of a transversely swingable cross carriage part. However, this swing function is not to be constantly activated because it can also be a hindrance, for example under normal road traffic conditions, for example when travelling relatively quickly around bends or the like, when the commercial vehicle seat is preferably required to hold the passenger in a stable manner. In this respect, appropriate locking means for fixing the cross carriage part to a stationary component of a seat substructure are also known for the commercial vehicle seat. A locking action is usually realised here in a rail-integrated manner in or respectively on cross rails of a lateral swinging means, by the aid of which the cross carriage part is guided on the stationary component. However, a major problem here is that due to the technically necessary play between a sliding rail element and a guiding rail element of the cross rails, a critical degree of freedom capable of rotating about a vertical axis frequently occurs, from which develops a sense of play, albeit it generally subjective in nature, as a result of which the commercial vehicle seat wobbles about the vertical axis. In this respect, suitable pawls of the locking means are coupled via relatively solid lever arms or via wire linkages, a number of articulated joints also being necessary between the individual components. These known solutions are correspondingly large in terms of their structure and also often require significant maintenance due to the large number of movable components. In addition, the large number of articulated components also causes an undesirable play in the entire locking means.
It is therefore the object of the present invention to further develop generic commercial vehicle seats such that at least the above-mentioned disadvantages are overcome.
This object is achieved according to the features of claim 1. The core idea of the invention is that in the case of a commercial vehicle seat with a seat part, a backrest part and a seat substructure to be arranged on a body part of a commercial vehicle, in which the seat substructure comprises a lateral swinging means with a cross carriage part, which can be swung transversely to the longitudinal extension of the commercial vehicle and by which at least the seat part is mounted such that it can swing on a base support part of the seat substructure transversely to the direction of travel, and comprises a locking means for fixing the cross carriage part on the base support part, the locking means has two locking units which are spaced apart from one other in the longitudinal extension of the commercial vehicle and which have a respective locking element which is mounted such that it can swivel about a vertical swivel axis and can be deflected synchronously by an actuating element which is arranged at least in part therebetween. The locking elements can thus be synchronously actuatable and are located in a horizontal plane between two cross rail units of the lateral swinging means. An advantage here is that the actuating element is arranged on the cross carriage part.
The locking elements can advantageously be synchronously deflected in that the actuating element is displaceable in the width direction of the vehicle seat in and counter to a displacement direction. Consequently, by pushing the actuating element in and out, the locking elements are deflected or swivelled respectively and thus either engage in bolts provided for this purpose or are disengaged therefrom to produce a locking or unlocking effect and thereby a double locking to fix the cross carriage part on the base support part.
The actuating element is advantageously provided with two curved portions and, wherein during a displacement movement of the actuating element, as described above, a first end of one of the locking elements can slide along each curved portion and a synchronous swivelling movement of the locking elements can be produced thereby. The locking elements which are preferably angled and flat can thus be simultaneously moved out and moved in again, for example by a spring loading, in that only the actuating element is pushed forwards and backwards and, during this movement, an interaction takes place between the curved portions of the actuating element and the ends of the locking elements. In this way, a double locking action can easily be produced by a simply formed actuating element. For this, only the actual actuating element with the two curved portions and an actuating element mount which is provided for this purpose and serves to guide the actuating element during the displacement movement are required. Spring elements can additionally be arranged as well as washers to improve the swivelling action of the locking elements.
With the proposed locking means, it is also possible to integrate the locking units, required for fixing the cross carriage part, into the substructure of the commercial vehicle seat simply in terms of construction and also while saving a great amount of space. This is particularly the case when the actuating element is also flat and is positioned in a plane with the angular, flat locking elements.
The present cross carriage part is a lateral horizontally displaceable horizontal cross carriage part, as a result of which in particular the seat part of the commercial vehicle seat is displaceable in a lateral horizontal manner. In this respect, the invention accordingly also relates to a lateral horizontally displaceable commercial vehicle seat.
Since the locking elements of the two locking units are spaced apart from one another in a horizontal plane, due to a double locking action, an extremely good play-free fixing of the swingable cross carriage part is also achieved, the locking elements swivelling in each case about a vertical swivel axis for locking and unlocking, and consequently being capable of being integrated into the seat substructure in a particularly flat construction. As a result, not only can a particularly loadable locking means be realised, but the entire seat height of the present commercial vehicle seat can be further reduced, which means that either more freedom of movement is available to a passenger or more installation space is available for other components of the commercial vehicle seat on the seat substructure.
In this respect, the present locking means within the meaning of the invention is also a double locking means with a double-lockable cross carriage part.
Here, it is also extremely advantageous that in particular the locking elements are arranged between two cross rail units of the lateral swinging means so that the entire installation space is optimally used for a reduction in the overall height of the seat substructure. In particular, it is advantageous that the locking elements in particular are not integrated into the cross rail units, so that said cross rail units can be of a relatively simple and flat configuration.
The two locking elements are ideally mounted in each case about a vertical swivel axis, as a result of which actuation can be realised more easily. Furthermore, in this respect, the necessary dimensions can be kept very small when the vertical swivel axes of the two locking elements are arranged together in a vertical plane extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. In addition, the entire locking means can consequently be constructed symmetrically, which greatly simplifies the coupling of the locking elements in particular.
The two locking elements are thus configured as swivel hook plate elements, swivelable about the vertical swivel axis, so that for example with a basic body height of at least 10 mm or 5 mm, the height extension thereof is accordingly of a flat construction.
The locking elements can advantageously be configured such that they can be used in a mirror-inverted manner in the same embodiment for the respective other side. Therefore, the components of the left locking element and of the right locking element are the same, allowing the production costs to be greatly reduced.
Due to the actuating element according to the invention with its curved portions which interact with the ends of the locking elements, an outwards movement can take place in a very narrow installation space without any articulation between the locking elements and the actuating element.
The curved portions of the actuating element can be configured in many different shapes to move the respective locking element, for example out of a locking position into an unlocking position.
The two curved portions of the actuating element are advantageously configured in a mirrored form with respect to a longitudinal axis of the actuating element, which longitudinal axis corresponds to the displacement direction of the actuating element. This also advantageously means that the two curved elements result in a possible identical configuration of the locking elements, as a result of which the same components can thereby again be used on both sides and the production costs can be reduced.
Due to the flat and symmetrical formation of the actuating element, at least in respect of the curved portions, the locking means can be constructed extremely simply and can be accommodated in a space-saving manner in the seat substructure and particularly between the two cross rail units.
A contact-based guidance of the ends of the limb portions of the locking elements is only necessary here in the region of the curved portions of the actuating element. Thus, due to a reduction in friction surfaces in this respect, the locking means can also be actuated smoothly. Consequently, it is also possible to make reductions in terms of components and weight.
The locking means can be configured in a very compact and in particular very flat form if the locking elements, with these locking elements operatively connectable actuating elements and optionally swivel axes as well as optionally a manually operable actuating handle are arranged in a common horizontal plane.
When the manually operable actuating handle is actuated, the actuating element and the locking elements which are operatively connected thereto ideally move, for example by swivelling in and along a common horizontal plane or at least parallel thereto. The overall height of the seat substructure can be further reduced when the locking elements are arranged on the cross carriage part between two cross rail units of the lateral swinging means such that the height extension thereof is arranged in an installation space delimited by a lower imaginary horizontal plane spanned by the undersides of the mutually spaced apart cross rail units and by an upper imaginary horizontal plane spanned by the upper sides of the mutually spaced apart cross rail units.
The operational reliability of the present locking means can be improved when a resiliently deflectable and exclusively the actuating element which is displaceable along a displacement direction is spring preloaded. Of course, alternatively or in addition, any locking element can be spring preloaded by a spring element. Consequently, the actuating element is always tensioned and can thus be operated without play. A spring element in this respect can be effectively realised, for example by a screw spring element.
Furthermore, it is also advantageous, as already mentioned, when each of the locking elements is effectively arranged, spring preloaded, on the cross carriage part in the direction of a locking position. It is thereby possible to ensure a very operationally reliable locking effect, even if relatively great impacts, caused by driving situations, act on the commercial vehicle seat and particularly on the locking means. A suitable spring element can be incorporated into the mechanism in a particularly flatly constructed manner if it is a leg spring, a flat spiral spring or a leg spring element.
The pretensioning forces keeping the locking elements pretensioned ideally exceed the pretensioning forces which tighten the actuating element, so that the locking elements are automatically always held in the respective locking position.
Furthermore, an advantageous variant provides that the locking elements have a respective flat basic body in which a material recess is provided for catching into a locking bolt element of the locking means, the material recess being arranged in a longitudinal side of the basic body which is opposite a coupling side, defined by the actuating element, of the basic body.
The locking elements are ideally respectively coupled by the actuating element such that they are mounted on the cross carriage part so that they can swivel towards one another to unlock the locking means.
To realise the material recess and a coupling point for fastening the actuating element to the respective locking element, longitudinal sides or ends of the angular locking elements are advantageously selected, as better lever ratios can be achieved thereby with regard to the respective vertical swivel axis, but this does not necessarily mean that in a special case of use, a short side of the locking element cannot also be used.
While the locking elements are configured as swivel hook elements and/or as angular elements, it is consequently advantageous when a locking bolt element is allocated to each of the locking units which bolt element is arranged on the base support part.
A locking means configured in this manner can ensure that the actual locking components, such as the locking elements and the locking bolt elements corresponding thereto are effectively arranged directly on the cross carriage part or on the base support part respectively, which can produce an extremely robust locking action.
Further advantages, objectives and characteristics of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings and in the following description, in which drawings a commercial vehicle seat with two locking units, arranged between two cross rail units, of a locking means is shown and described by way of example.
The commercial vehicle seat 1 shown in
Furthermore, the commercial vehicle seat 1 also comprises a seat substructure 7, by which the entire commercial vehicle seat 1 is attached to a body part 8, such as a cabin floor of a commercial vehicle cabin.
To adapt the commercial vehicle seat 1 in a versatile manner to the passenger's very diverse requirements of use and also to be able to offer the best possible seating comfort, in this embodiment the seat substructure 7 has a horizontal movement device 9 and a vertical movement device 10.
By means of the horizontal movement device 9, at least the seat part 2 and components connected thereto, for example the backrest part 3, can be moved in a translatory manner in longitudinal adjustment directions 11 (x-axis) and in a translatory manner in the lateral swinging direction 12 (y-axis) and also in a rotatory manner in rotation adjustment directions 13 about a vertical axis 14 (z-axis), as will be described in the following. In this embodiment, the horizontal movement device 9 only has a very small overall height of 57 mm due to the compact construction thereof.
By means of the vertical movement device 10, at least the seat part 2 and components connected thereto, such as the backrest part 3, can be moved in a translatory manner in vertical adjustment directions 15 with respect to the vertical axis. For this purpose, the vertical movement device 10 comprises a scissor-action frame 16 which is arranged between a cover plate 17 of the vertical movement device 10 and a base plate 18 of the vertical movement device 10 such that the horizontal movement device 9 is mounted in a vertically movable manner with respect to the base plate 18, wherein the cover plate 17 comprises the horizontal movement device 9. Furthermore, the vertical movement device 10 also comprises a damper-spring means 19 to cushion and dampen a vertical movement on the commercial vehicle seat 1 in the vertical direction 15.
The horizontal movement device 9, shown in more detail particularly in
By means of the longitudinal adjustment means 20, a front longitudinal adjustment path of 120 mm and a rear longitudinal adjustment path of 90 mm, based on a neutral longitudinal position can be achieved, whereas by means of the lateral swinging means 21, a lateral swing path around a neutral longitudinal position of +/−25 mm can be achieved. By means of the rotation adjustment means 22, a respective swivel movement of 60° about the vertical axis 14 in 7.5° steps around a neutral rotational position and/or a 180° rotation can be achieved.
The longitudinal adjustment means L20 substantially comprises a right-hand longitudinal rail unit 25 and a left-hand longitudinal rail unit 26 (see
Furthermore, in this embodiment, a double locking unit 30 by which the respective sliding rail element 28 can be locked on or unlocked from the corresponding guiding rail element 27 is allocated to the longitudinal adjustment means, so that the commercial vehicle seat 1 can be fixed or moved in the longitudinal adjustment means 11.
In order for the passenger to be able to manually actuate the double locking unit 30, the longitudinal adjustment means 11 comprises a manually operable handle element 31 which is arranged at the side next to the seat part 2 integrated into an actuating control 32 of the commercial vehicle seat 1.
The sliding rail elements 28 of the longitudinal rail units 25 and 26, the double locking unit 30 and also the manually operable handle element 31 with the mechanisms thereof are attached to a base support part 33 of the horizontal movement device 9, to which base support part 33 cross rail units 34, 35 of the lateral swinging means 21 are also attached. Each of the cross rail units 34 and 35 has a guiding rail cross element 36 and a sliding rail cross element 37 to allow a movement in the lateral adjustment direction 12. In this embodiment, the longitudinal adjustment means 20 is arranged under the lateral swinging means 21 so that it is positioned between the lateral swinging means 21 and the vertical movement device 10.
The respective guiding rail cross element 36 is thus screwed together with the base support part 33, whereas the sliding rail cross element 37 guided accordingly on the guiding rail cross element 36 is respectively arranged on a lower casing part 45.
In this embodiment, the lower casing part 45 belongs to the rotation adjustment means 22 and forms with a correspondingly formed double-layered upper casing part 46 a mounting for a rolling body bearing unit 47 which is realised in this embodiment by a ball bearing unit. On the underside, the ball bearing unit 47 is completed and protected by a cover element 49 which forms the second part of the double-layered upper casing part 46 and by which the lower casing part 45, the upper casing part 46 and thereby also the ball bearing unit 47 of the rotation adjustment means 22 are braced. For this purpose, nuts 50 are screwed together with corresponding threaded bolts 51 of the cover element 49.
Furthermore, the lower casing part 45 forms a torque-proof fixed casing part 45A of the rotation adjustment means 22 which is integrated into the seat substructure 7 in a torque-proof manner, whereas the present double-layered upper casing part 46 correspondingly forms a rotating casing part 46A which is rotatable with respect to the fixed casing part 45A and which, by means of the cover element 49, is mounted on the fixed casing part 45A such that it can rotate about the vertical axis 14 by two ball rim parts 52, 53 of the ball bearing unit 47.
To enable at least the seat part 2 of the preliminary commercial vehicle seat 1 to swing transversely to the travel direction 5 and thereby also transversely to the longitudinal extension 55 of the commercial vehicle, the lateral swinging means 21 is further characterized by a cross carriage part 65 which can swing transversely to the longitudinal extension 55 of the commercial vehicle and the swinging motion of which can be damped by damper 57. This cross carriage part 56 is guided correspondingly by the two mutually spaced apart cross rail units 34 and 35 with respect to the base support part 33.
Furthermore, the commercial vehicle seat 1 also has a locking means 60 which is shown in more detail in
These locking elements 65, 66 are configured as angular lever elements, which will be described in more detail below.
The two vertical swivel axes 63, 64 are arranged so as to extend parallel to one another in a common vertical plane 67 (shown merely by way of example in
This vertical plane 67 extends vertically to a horizontal plane 68 in which the two locking elements 65, 66 are swivelably arranged, this horizontal plane 68 coinciding with the plane of the paper according to the drawing in
The term “horizontal plane” in the context of the present invention is understood as meaning that this plane extends in the width direction of the vehicle and in the longitudinal direction 55 of the vehicle and is only oriented horizontally when the commercial vehicle is positioned on horizontally oriented ground. Otherwise, this plane inclines with an inclination of the entire commercial vehicle according to the width direction and longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The same applies with respect to the vertical plane 67.
The two locking elements are moved about the respective vertical swivel axis 62, 63 by a common actuating element 69 arranged at least in part between said locking elements and are deflected thereby. The actuating element in a displacement direction 82, as shown in
Thus, the two locking elements 65 and 66 are arranged in a synchronously actuatable and in an extraordinarily space-saving manner in the horizontal plane 68 between the two cross rail units 34 and 35 of the lateral swinging means 21.
For this purpose, the two locking elements 65, 66 are each produced from flat basic body plates 70 approximately 5 mm thick or high respectively (numbered merely by way of example, see
Furthermore, the basic body plates 70 of the two locking elements 65 and 66 are respectively configured angularly with the limb portions 79 facing the actuating elements, and provided on a first side 71 of the respective further limb portion of each locking element is a respective material recess 72 by which each of the locking elements 65, 66 is snapped into a corresponding locking bolt element 73, 74 of the locking means 60 when said locking means 60 and thereby also the lateral swinging means 21 are in a locking position 75 (cf.
In order that the locking elements 65, 66 are always able to snap into the locking bolt element 73, 74 in an operationally reliable manner, each of the locking units 61, 62 comprises a spiral spring element 76, 77.
While the respective material recess 72 is made in the respective first side 71 of the locking elements 65, 66, curved formations for stabilising the locking element are provided on a side 78 opposite side 71.
Thus, side 71 is to be considered as the locking side and the limb portion 79 is to be considered as the deflection limb portion of the locking element.
For this purpose, the actuating element 69 is guided inside an actuating element mount or a corresponding displacement holding element 84 which, when viewing the displacement means shown in individual parts in
If the actuating element is pulled outwards from inside, i.e. if it is moved downwards from above in
On the other hand,
As can also be clearly seen in
Due to the eccentric positioning of the slot 85 and of the guide bolt, it is possible, particularly during a backwards movement, i.e. during an unlocking procedure, for a locking element 66 to have a more advantageous force progression or distance progression respectively due to the circular course of the actuating lever, thereby allowing an easier unlocking procedure. In addition, this eccentric position improves the secure positioning of the locking element.
An additional spring fitted on the side of the actuating element 69 can contribute to holding the locking and unlocking system more effectively in the end positions.
The individual parts shown in
As can be seen in particular from the drawing according to
As can be clearly seen particularly in a drawing of the horizontal movement device in a bottom view according to
Depending on whether the commercial vehicle seat 1 is a vehicle seat or a front passenger seat, the construction, in particular the seat substructure 7 can also be configured in a mirror-inverted manner in respect of the x-axis, that is the actuating control 32 and in particular the manually operable handle element 31 and the manually operable actuating handle 38 can be arranged on the right-hand side of the commercial vehicle seat instead of on the left-hand side.
All the features disclosed in the application documents are claimed as being essential to the invention, provided that, individually or in combination, they are novel over the prior art.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 102014107816.0 | Jun 2014 | DE | national |
