Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090008977 | Vehicle seat with slide valve - The invention relates to a vehicle seat with a height-adjustable seat frame which comprises at least two seat frame parts which can move relative to one another and at least one fluid spring, in particular an air spring, arranged on the seat frame parts for height adjustment purposes, with at least one control device which is provided for influencing the fluid spring and which comprises at least one valve device with control valves which is attached to the first seat frame part and is designed to control fluid flows for the fluid spring, and also a control element which is provided on a second seat frame part and is designed to actuate the control valves, so that a height adjustment and/or damping oscillatory movement of the vehicle seat is ensured, wherein the valve device comprises an internally cylindrical component with at least one rod element arranged displaceably therein as a control element, wherein at least one fluid intake and discharge opening of the rod element can selectively be assigned to one of the control elements by a relative displacement of the cylindrical component and the rod element with respect to one another. | 01-08-2009 |
20090026816 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH BASE FRAME AND ADJUSTABLE SEAT FRAME - The invention relates to a vehicle seat comprising a base frame and comprising a seat frame which can be adjusted relative to the base frame, and comprising a gas spring which acts between this base frame and this seat frame and which is supported against the seat frame, wherein at least one pressure source and at least one valve device which is in fluid connection with this pressure source are provided, and in that furthermore a manually operated actuation element is provided for adjusting the vehicle seat, wherein this at least one valve device is arranged on or in the actuation element. | 01-29-2009 |
20090125194 | VEHICLE COMPRISING A SPRING-MOUNTED VEHICLE SEAT AND A SPRING-MOUNTED VEHICLE CAB, AND SUSPENSION METHOD - There is described a vehicle comprising a spring-mounted vehicle seat ( | 05-14-2009 |
20090134595 | APPARATUS COMPRISING A SUSPENSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A SUSPENSION SYSTEM - An apparatus having a suspension system with a first part which is acted upon by a mass, a second part, and also an air spring arranged between this first part and this second part. At least one supplementary volume device for air is provided, the volume of which can be varied in a controlled manner, and also a first control device for adjusting the volume of the supplementary volume device. | 05-28-2009 |
20090272871 | VEHICLE SEAT HAVING A DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A PNEUMATIC SUSPENSION SYSTEM - A vehicle seat having a device for controlling a pneumatic suspension system, by means of which the vehicle seat is spring-mounted relative to a vehicle body part, including at least one directional-control valve which is pneumatically connected to the device for controlling the suspension system and which is arranged in the region of a seat part of the vehicle seat, the seat part being movable relative to a base frame and which is adjustable by a movement of the seat part relative to the base frame. | 11-05-2009 |
20100181708 | DEVICE FOR SPRINGING A MASS, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING AND/OR OPERATING A FLUID SPRING - A device for springing a mass including a fluid spring and a frame, in which the fluid spring is arranged between the mass and the frame in such a way that the mass is mounted on the frame in a sprung and/or damped manner. An add-on-fluid volume device for providing an additional fluid volume for the fluid spring includes at least two fluid volume chambers that can be fluidically connected to one another and which have a common, displaceable chamber wall. | 07-22-2010 |
20100213345 | Device and Method for Suspension of a Vehicle Seat by Means of Additional Volumes - A device and method for suspension of a vehicle seat by means of additional volumes, in particular a utility vehicle seat, comprising at least one air spring for height adjustment of a seat part of said air spring being arranged between the seat part and a lower part, and a control device for controlling the supply and discharge of at least one additional volume to or from the air spring, wherein, at predefinable speed or acceleration values of a spring movement of the air spring, the additional volume which can be supplied or discharged can be switched on or off by means of the control device in such a way that, in end-of-travel regions of the air spring, the profile of a force/travel air spring characteristic during an extension and/or return spring movement of the air spring does not exhibit any incline in a first and in a second range. | 08-26-2010 |
20100237656 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUSPENSION OF A VEHICLE CABIN BY MEANS OF ADDITIONAL VOLUMES - Devices and methods for suspension of a vehicle cabin using additional volumes of air for utility a vehicles. An example device includes at least one air spring for suspension of the utility vehicle cabin, the air spring being arranged between the cabin and a base frame, and a control device for controlling the supply and discharge of at least one additional volume to/from the air spring. At predefinable speed or acceleration values of a movement of the air spring, the additional volume is supplied or discharged by means of the control device in such a way that, in end-of-travel regions of the air spring, the profile of a force/travel air spring characteristic during an extension and/or return spring movement of the air spring does not exhibit any incline or exhibits only a small incline in a first and in a second range. | 09-23-2010 |
20110298266 | Pneumatic Springing System for Vehicles and Method for Pneumatic Springing of Vehicle Parts - The invention concerns a pneumatic springing system for vehicles with at least a first and a second part ( | 12-08-2011 |
20120043798 | VEHICLE SUSPENSION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE SEATS OR VEHICLE CABS - The invention relates to a vehicle suspension device for a vehicle seat ( | 02-23-2012 |
20120090930 | Vehicle Damping Device for a Vehicle Seat / Vehicle Cabin - The invention concerns a vehicle damping device for a vehicle seat ( | 04-19-2012 |
20120145875 | VEHICLE VIBRATION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE SEATS OR VEHICLE CABS - The invention concerns a vehicle vibration device for a vehicle seat or a vehicle cab with a lower part and an upper part sprung mounted in relation to the lower part by at least one damper device, wherein the upper part is mounted suspended on the lower part so that on occurrence of vibrations between the upper part and lower part, the upper part can swivel about a fictitious or real axis arranged below the upper part and extending in the vehicle width direction or vehicle length direction. | 06-14-2012 |
20120153689 | Horizontal seat adjustment means with setting member - The invention relates to a seat for a vehicle, in particular for all-terrain vehicles, with at least one seat area extending in the longitudinal direction (X) of the vehicle and in the width-wise direction (Y) of the vehicle for receiving a person, a backrest for supporting the back of the person and a holding device connected in the vertical direction (Z) under the seat area and to the latter for keeping the seat area at a distance from a coupling region for coupling the seat to the vehicle, wherein the holding device has at least one spring device for the movable arrangement at least for a time of at least the seat area with respect to the coupling region in the longitudinal direction (X) of the vehicle and/or in the width-wise direction (Y) of the vehicle. | 06-21-2012 |
20120153695 | Horizontal seat adjustment means - The invention relates to a seat for a vehicle, in particular for all-terrain vehicles, with at least one seat area extending in the longitudinal direction (X) of the vehicle and in the width-wise direction (Y) of the vehicle for receiving a person, a backrest for supporting the back of the person and a holding device connected in the vertical direction (Z) under the seat area and to the latter for keeping the seat area at a distance from a coupling region for coupling the seat to the vehicle, wherein the holding device has at least one spring device for the movable arrangement at least for a time of at least the seat area with respect to the coupling region in the longitudinal direction (X) of the vehicle and/or in the width-wise direction (Y) of the vehicle. | 06-21-2012 |
20120187615 | Vehicle Vibration Means, Vehicle Seat or Passenger Cell or Vehicle Cab of a Vehicle - To refine known vehicle vibration devices, the invention proposes a vehicle vibration device with a horizontal vibration means and with a means to stabilise a horizontal middle position of the horizontal vibration means, in which the horizontal vibration means is arranged horizontally vibratable in the vehicle longitudinal direction and/or in the vehicle width direction, in which the stabilisation means comprises a spring element and in which the stabilisation means is integrated in or on a damper means of a vehicle vibration device. | 07-26-2012 |
20120222928 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DAMPER ADJUSTMENTS FOR A HORIZONTAL SUSPENSION - The invention relates to a vehicle oscillation device having two vehicle parts arranged to be movable relative to each other, wherein one of the two vehicle parts is supported in a substantially horizontally oscillatory manner in relation to the further one of the two vehicle parts in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and/or in the width direction of the vehicle, wherein said two vehicle parts are coupled with each other in an pivoting manner by a transmission system having more than one transmission element, and a damper is provided in a damping manner between a first transmission element and one of the two vehicle parts or a further transmission element. | 09-06-2012 |
20130134753 | VEHICLE SEAT AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE - The invention relates to a vehicle seat with a seat part and with a seat back part for supporting a driver of the vehicle in the sitting position on the vehicle seat, wherein the vehicle seat has an additional vehicle driver's torso support device which can be disposed outside the seat part and the seat back and which can be temporarily disposed at least partially in an otherwise seat-free torso support region in front of the seat back part and laterally and/or above the seat back part, in order to provide support, laterally off-centre of the seat back part, at least at the level of the shoulder region of the driver who is sitting on the vehicle seat when he adopts a seated working posture oriented to the side or backwards, and wherein the additional vehicle driver's torso support device comprises a seat back extension device which is disposed on the seat back part ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130175837 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH LATERAL SUPPORT ELEMENT - The invention relates to a vehicle seat with a seat part and with a seat back part for supporting a driver of the vehicle in the sitting position on the vehicle seat, wherein the vehicle seat is characterized by an additional vehicle driver's torso support device which can be disposed outside the seat part and the seat back part and which can be temporarily disposed at least partially in an otherwise seat-free torso support region at the level of or above the upper third of the seat back part in front of the seat back part and laterally off-centre on the seat back part, in order to provide support, laterally off-centre of the seat back part, at least at the level of the shoulder or chest region of the driver who is sitting on the vehicle seat when he adopts a seated working posture oriented to the side or backwards, wherein the additional vehicle driver's torso support device is disposed so as to be movable by a moving device from a parked position into an additional torso support position in the otherwise seat-free torso support region. | 07-11-2013 |
20130181494 | VEHICLE SEAT AND USE OF AN UNDULATING SLIDE ROD ELEMENT - The invention relates to a vehicle seat comprising a seat part, comprising a back rest part and comprising a linear guide device for translational adjustment of the vehicle seat, in which the linear guide device comprises a guide rail means and a slide rail means which is displaceable with respect thereto, in which a bearing means interacts between the slide rail means and the guide rail means and at least comprises slide rod elements so as to mount the slide rail means with respect to the guide rail means, and in which the slide rod element comprises an elongate undulating base body, the slide rod element having an effective external diameter which is greater, at least when the slide rod element is radially unloaded, than a core external diameter of the elongate undulating base body. | 07-18-2013 |
20130320733 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPRINGING A VEHICLE SEAT - The invention relates to a spring device for a vehicle seat, in particular a utility vehicle seat having at least one air spring arranged between a seat part and a lower part for the height adjustment ( | 12-05-2013 |
20140103690 | VEHICLE SEAT COMPRISING AN ADJUSTABLE BACKREST SHAPE - The invention relates to a vehicle seat comprising a seat frame having a sitting surface frame and a backrest frame, wherein the backrest frame has a left backrest longitudinal strut and a right backrest longitudinal strut as well as a lower cross strut and an upper cross strut, the right and left backrest longitudinal struts being pivotably arranged on the lower cross strut in such a way that the backrest frame is helically deformable. | 04-17-2014 |
20140167468 | COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SEAT COMPRISING A DOUBLE-CATCH CROSS SLIDE PART - The invention relates to a commercial vehicle seat including a seat part, a backrest part and a seat substructure for arrangement on a body part of a commercial vehicle, in which the seat substructure includes a transverse oscillation device comprising a cross slide part which is capable of oscillating transversely to the length of the commercial vehicle and by means of which at least the seat part is mounted so as to be capable of oscillating transversely to the direction of travel on a base carrier part of the seat substructure, and includes a locking device for fixing the cross slide part on the base carrier part, wherein the locking device includes two locking units which are spaced apart along the length of the commercial vehicle and have respective locking elements which are mounted pivotally about vertical pivot axes or displaceably along linear axes and are arranged so as to be synchronously operable in a horizontal plane between two transverse rail units of the transverse oscillation device. | 06-19-2014 |
20140167469 | COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SEAT WITH ROTATABLE SEAT PART - The invention relates to a commercial vehicle seat having a seat substructure supporting part and a seat substructure base parteach attached underneath a seat part, the seat substructure supporting part being movable and/or height-adjustable relative to the seat substructure base part, where the seat substructure supporting part comprises an upper supporting part joined to the underside of the seat part and a lower supporting part joined to the base part, wherein at least one roller bearing with a roller bearing ring, which extends orbitally about a notional rotary axis running in the vertical direction of said vehicle seat, is arranged between the upper supporting part and the lower supporting part, in order to rotatably support said upper supporting part relative to said lower supporting part. | 06-19-2014 |
20140167471 | COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SEAT HAVING A LOCKING MEMBER - The invention relates to a commercial vehicle seat with a seat portion, with a backrest portion and with a seat substructure for mounting on a body portion of a commercial vehicle, wherein said seat substructure has locking means for securing against an unintended rotary movement of a rotary adjustment means for rotating at least the seat portion relative to the body portion, wherein the locking means comprises a locking member that is supported so as to be translationally displaceable along a displacement axis, for fixing the rotary adjustment means, and wherein said locking member comprises a base body member secured against rotation about the displacement axis, the base body height of which base body member is at least two to four times, preferably more than six times smaller than the base body width thereof. | 06-19-2014 |
20140167472 | UTILITY VEHICLE SEAT WITH INTEGRATED ROTATION ADJUSTMENT DEVICE - The invention relates to a utility vehicle seat with a seat part, with a backrest part and with a seat substructure for arrangement on a bodywork part of a utility vehicle. The seat substructure including a rotation adjustment device having a roller body bearing unit for rotating at least the seat part about a vertical axis, a longitudinal adjustment device and a transverse adjustment device. The rotation adjustment apparatus is arranged between two longitudinal rail units or transverse rail units, in such a way that a vertical extension of the rotation adjustment apparatus amounts to a maximum of 150% or 100% of a vertical extension of the longitudinal rail units or the transverse rail units. | 06-19-2014 |
20140217796 | UTILITY VEHICLE SEAT WITH A ROTATION ADJUSTMENT DEVICE OVERLOAD PROTECTION UNIT - The invention relates to a utility vehicle seat with a seat part, with a backrest part and with a seat substructure for arrangement on a bodywork part of a utility vehicle. The seat substructure includes a rotation adjustment device for rotating at least the seat part with respect to the bodywork part with a ball bearing unit, and with a rotating shell part which is rotatable with respect to a stationary shell part. The utility vehicle seat further includes a rotation adjustment device overload protection unit with support elements by means of which the rotating shell part and the stationary shell part are additionally capable of being supported with respect to each other when the carrying capacity of one of the circular ball tracks reaches or exceeds a critical deformation value. | 08-07-2014 |
20150015045 | VEHICLE SEAT AND UTILITY MOTOR VEHICLE COMPRISING A VEHICLE SEAT - The invention relates to a vehicle seat, in particular a utility motor vehicle seat, having a seat part, having a backrest comprising a lower backrest part and an upper backrest part, and having a holding device, by means of which the upper backrest part is mounted displaceably with respect to the lower backrest part, wherein the holding device has a sliding guide device, by means of which the upper backrest part is arranged displaceably with respect to the lower backrest part along a displacement curve so as to mount the upper backrest part displaceably at least in part past the side edge of the lower backrest part. | 01-15-2015 |