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| 20080211281 | INERTIAL LATCH ASSEMBLY SUCH AS INCORPORATED INTO A REAR ROW PIVOTING SEAT BOTTOM INCLUDING A SLOTTED INERTIAL LOCK PLATE WITH RESISTIVE SUPPORT IN BOTH DESIGN AND UPRIGHT POSITIONS - An inertial latch assembly including a planar shaped sector pivotally mounted between a pair of spaced apart support plates. The sector exhibits a bottom including a central projecting shoulder separating first and second bottom surfaces. An arcuate interior channel in the sector is offset from its pivotal mounting location, a pin extending through a second channel defined in a selected support plate and seating within the arcuate channel so that the pin exerts a bias against the sector during travel along the arcuate interior channel. A pendulum is secured in sandwiching fashion between the support plates and proximate the bottom extending surface of the planar shaped sector, an arcuate edge thereof seating against a selected bottom extending surfaces of the rotatable sector, depending upon a pivoted position established between the sector and the support plates. The pendulum responds to an inertial impact condition by engaging against the underside shoulder of the sector and to prevent rotation of the sector relative to the support plates. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090174247 | DISC RECLINER ASSEMBLY INCORPORATED INTO A SEATBACK/SEAT BASE PIVOT ASSOCIATED WITH A FRONT SEAT - A seat recliner assembly established at a hinge location between a seat bottom and a pivotally associated seat back including a base plate and an inwardly teethed and package supporting sector secured to the seat back and seat bottom, respectively and sandwiched together in selectively rotatable fashion relative to define a component receiving space therebetween. A shalt projects through an aperture of a rotatably slaved cam situated within the space. A pair of locking pawls with exteriorly toothed surfaces are displaceable to engage with inwardly teethed locations of the package supporting sector. A pair of anti-chuck pawls are selectively engagable both by the cam and with the locking pawls. The cam is biased in a first rotational locking condition to influence the anti-chuck pawls outwardly against the locking pawls. The cam is rotated in an opposite and counter-biasing direction, thereby directly contacting the locking pawls and pivoting the same such that their exteriorly toothed surfaces are inwardly disengaged from the teethed sector, permitting rotational between the base plate and package sector. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090243324 | DUAL LATCH SECOND ROW DUMP AND TUMBLE SENT WITH OFFSETTING FREE PIVOT SEATBACK AND FLOOR LATCHES - An improved seat assembly in which the first and second pairs of seatback and floor mounted latches associated with first and second sides of prior dump and tumble assemblies are substituted by an improved design incorporating a single reinforced lock and release seatback latch and either a single or pair of floor latches arranged on opposite sides of the seat. Additional supports include a free pivoting and secondary seatback latch, as well as an optional floor supported riser assembly in lieu of the second floor latch and which are positioned at alternating inboard/outboard seatback and floor locations of the seat assembly. In cooperation with the redesigned fully functional latches, the free pivot seatback and optional floor riser latches provide a cost advantageous design exhibiting reduced part count. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100026069 | SEAT RECLINER/DUMP MECHANISM SUCH AS INCORPORATED INTO A SEATBACK SLAVED TO A FLOOR LATCH RELEASE - A recliner mechanism for use with a vehicle seat having a floor striker engaging bottom and a pivotally associated seatback. A seatback is pivotally secured to a fixed support and includes an arcuate lower surface upon which are defined teeth. A pawl is pivotally secured to the support and includes an upper surface with additional inter-engaging teeth when the seatback is in an upright position. A release cam secures to the support proximate a recessed underside location of the pawl and maintains the pawl in locking engagement with the seatback sector in a first position. The release cam rotates to cause the pawl to pivot out of engagement with the seatback, allowing it to pivot to a dump position opposing the seat bottom and concurrent with the seat bottom releasing from the floor striker and tumbling to a forward rotated position. A floor latch release lever is also pivotally secured to the support and, upon being contacted by the release cam, in turn pivots so that an end feature displaces to prevent the locking pawl from pivoting in a reverse direction against the seatback. The release lever reverse pivots in response to the seat bottom reengaging the floor striker, causing the pawl to reverse pivot its teeth into reengagement with the seatback upon the latter rotating back to the upright position. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20110084533 | SEAT RECLINER/DUMP MECHANISM SUCH AS INCORPORATED INTO A SEATBACK SLAVED TO A FLOOR LATCH RELEASE - A recliner mechanism for use with a vehicle seat having a floor striker engaging bottom and a pivotally associated seatback. A seatback is pivotally secured to a fixed support and includes an arcuate lower surface upon which are defined teeth. A pawl is pivotally secured to the support and includes an upper surface with additional inter-engaging teeth when the seatback is in an upright position. A release cam secures to the support proximate a recessed underside location of the pawl and maintains the pawl in locking engagement with the seatback sector in a first position. The release cam rotates to cause the pawl to pivot out of engagement with the seatback, allowing it to pivot to a dump position opposing the seat bottom and concurrent with the seat bottom releasing from the floor striker and tumbling to a forward rotated position. A floor latch release lever is also pivotally secured to the support and, upon being contacted by the release cam, in turn pivots so that an end feature displaces to prevent the locking pawl from pivoting in a reverse direction against the seatback. The release lever reverse pivots in response to the seat bottom reengaging the floor striker, causing the pawl to reverse pivot its teeth into reengagement with the seatback upon the latter rotating back to the upright position. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110148170 | PIVOTING HEADREST FOR USE IN A REAR ROW SEAT AND INCORPORATING TRIGGER RELEASE WITH CABLE SLACK PICKUP DURING SEATBACK ROTATION TO A FORWARD DUMP POSITION - A pivoting headrest assembly incorporated into a rear row vehicle seat including a base and a pivotally supported seatback. A first bracket is fixedly supported atop the seatback and exhibits a striker. A second bracket is pivotally supported to the first bracket in a biased direction away from the striker and includes a headrest bun support. A hook is supported upon the second bracket in a first biased direction engaging the striker. A release element associated with the second bracket is biased direction and which, upon being actuated in a second counter-biased direction, engages a projecting portion associated with the hook. A cable is secured at a first end to a fixed location associated with the seat and extends through a redirection location an offset distance from a pivot location of the seatback, the cable securing at a second end to the release element. Upon the seatback being pivoted relative to the fixed location, translation of the cable around the redirection location results in actuation of the release element to separate the hook from the striker and the second bracket to pivot away from the first bracket. A return bias of the release element results in take-up of slack in the cable, concurrent with return pivoting of the second bracket into engagement with the striker. | 06-23-2011 |
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| 20100227662 | OUTCOME BASED DISPLAY OF GAMING RESULTS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to gaming devices and gaming systems having an outcome based display of summarized past gaming results and a method of processing and displaying the past gaming results. In one example, a gaming device may record game information corresponding to the gaming event on the device and a memory and store this recorded information in a memory. The recorded information may be processed by the gaming device or another device connected to the gaming device to generate a summarized display of the recorded information to depict to a current gaming player or prospective gaming player. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100227687 | RANDOM GENERATED DISPLAY ASSOCIATED WITH GAMING DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for displaying a pattern associated with a gaming device to heighten the gaming interest of players or potential players. These methods and systems include displaying an initial pattern and altering the initial pattern as play on the gaming device progresses, or as pattern modifying signals are otherwise received. The displayed pattern may be presented on any display device, including but not limited to the game screen or on any screen or panel on a gaming device, in a secondary display device attached or detached from the gaming device or table game, or any other display applications used on or with a gaming device or table. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110009181 | METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR GAMING DEVICE DISPLAY - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for searching for or otherwise identifying particular patterns or outcome trends associated with a gaming device, and gaming systems for implementing these methods. In one example, a gaming system may include a plurality of gaming devices having pattern displays, a server connected to the gaming devices through a network and configured to identify display information from the pattern displays of the gaming devices, and a search device operable by a player to search for desired display information and configured to identify a gaming device having pattern information displayed that substantially matches the desired display information. | 01-13-2011 |
