Hinge mechanism for a vehicular seat back
CA 2135015 A1 · Owner: Atwood Automotive, Inc. · Inventors: Loewe, Gerhard
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A hinge arm adapted to be attached to a vehicular seat back is pivotally connected to a bracket adapted to be attached to the seat cushion and normally is held in a fixed position by virtue of a pivoted latch on the arm engaging a fixed latch plate on the bracket. The latch and the latch plate are formed with engageable latching faces which cause a heel on the latch to wedge into a pocket in the latch plate and prevent chucking of the seat back. The latching faces are curved on different radii and about different centers in order to maintain tight engagement between the two latching faces and to keep the heel wedged into the pocket as the latching faces wear.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 3, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 3, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 3, 2016.
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