US 12,403,796 B2
Seat track
Bertrand Plancon, Flers (FR); Fabrice Petit, St Georges des Groseillers (FR); and Guillaume Petot, La Ferrière aux Etangs (FR)
Assigned to FAURECIA Sièges d'Automobile, Nanterre (FR)
Filed by FAURECIA Sièges d'Automobile, Nanterre (FR)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/568,992.
Claims priority of application No. 21 00124 (FR), filed on Jan. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0212571 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60N 2/07 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/0722 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A track for a vehicle seat comprising:
a female rail, having at least one substantially flat wall;
a male rail, also having at least one substantially flat wall, mounted sliding relative to the female rail along a longitudinal direction of the track, where the female rail comes to surround the male rail along a transverse direction of the track, with the substantially flat wall of the female rail located across from the substantially flat wall of the male rail; and
a position sensor configured so as to determine the position of the male rail relative to the female rail, at least along the longitudinal direction of the track, where the position sensor is received inside a case,
wherein the case is fixed to the male rail and at least partially extending into a volume of the male rail, such that the position sensor is located across from the substantially flat wall of the female rail, after having been inserted and slid through at least one opening arranged in the substantially flat wall of the male rail, and such that the at least one opening positions the case in the at least one opening in the substantially flat wall of the male rail, and
wherein the case comprises a first part for attaching the case comprising an attachment system and a second part for receiving the position sensor inside, positioned in an extension of the first part.