US 12,139,049 B2
Seat rail locking device for vehicle
Seong Jun Hwang, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Cheon Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC., Chungcheongnam-do (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC., Seosan-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/808,421.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0083323 (KR), filed on Jun. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0410765 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B60N 2/08 (2006.01); B60N 2/07 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/0806 (2013.01) [B60N 2/0715 (2013.01); B60N 2/0881 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seat rail locking device for a vehicle, the seat rail locking device comprising:
a fixed rail fixedly mounted to a floor panel;
a movable rail fastened to the fixed rail to be movable in forward and backward directions;
a support plate mounted on the movable rail for assembling with a seat cushion;
a lock pin guide provided in a hollow structure in which a spring backing part is formed, and inserted into and fastened to the movable rail;
a lock pin provided in a structure in which a spring support part is formed to protrude from an outer diameter portion, and inserted into the lock pin guide to be movable in upward and downward directions;
a spring disposed between the spring support part and the spring backing part of the lock pin guide to be compressible;
a track lever fastened to the support plate by a hinge and connected to an upper end of the lock pin; and
a locking plate fastened to a lower end of the lock pin, moving in an upward direction when the lock pin moves in the upward direction to be inserted into and locked to a locking groove having an opened lower portion formed at an inner end of the fixed rail, and moving in a downward direction together when the lock pin moves in the downward direction to be separated and unlocked from the locking groove of the fixed rail,
wherein the lock pin guide includes:
a hollow guide pipe in which the spring backing part is formed; and
a mounting plate integrally formed on a circumferential portion of an upper end of the guide pipe, and seated on and fastened to an outer circumferential surface of an assembling hole when a lower portion of the guide pipe is inserted into and fastened to the assembling hole formed in the movable rail.