US 12,071,048 B2
Seat-rotating device
Haruki Mochizuki, Tochigi (JP); Takeshi Akutsu, Tochigi (JP); and Takuji Kaneda, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/296,385
Filed by TS TECH CO., LTD., Saitama (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/045930
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/110984, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-220691 (JP), filed on Nov. 26, 2018; application No. 2019-008028 (JP), filed on Jan. 21, 2019; application No. 2019-011615 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2019; application No. 2019-026600 (JP), filed on Feb. 18, 2019; and application No. 2019-046309 (JP), filed on Mar. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0032823 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B60N 2/14 (2006.01); B60N 2/06 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/146 (2013.01) [B60N 2/06 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
23. A seat-rotating device for a seat installed in a vehicle, comprising:
a base member supported by a pair of slide rails provided on a vehicular floor face;
a support member fixed to the base member;
a rotating member rotatably supported on the base member and supporting a seat frame of the seat, a part of the rotating member being positioned between the base member and the support member;
a first bearing member disposed between the base member and the rotating member;
a second bearing member disposed between the support member and the rotating member;
a support bracket linked to the base member;
a first hook member fixed onto the support bracket; and
a second hook member fixed to the rotating member and engaged with the first hook member so as to allow the rotating member to rotate,
wherein each of the slide rails is formed from a fixed rail and a movable rail that is slidably fitted to the fixed rail,
the support bracket is connectedly provided to the movable rails,
the support bracket and an outer peripheral of the rotating member are spaced apart by the first hook member and the second hook member,
the first hook member extends upward from the support bracket,
the second hook member extends downward from the rotating member, and
the second hook member is positioned more outward than the first hook member in a left-and-right direction.