Bernd H Gerlach

US Patent:

55203620, May 28, 1996

Filed:

May 6, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/238825

Inventors:

Bernd H. Gerlach - New Baltimore MI

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

International Classification:

F16M 1300

US Classification:

248429

Abstract:

The present invention provides, in a preferred embodiment, a vehicle seat adjuster particularly suitable for the middle or forward seating of a three-row van or minivan type vehicle. The seat adjuster may be provided with a master-slave latch arrangement allowing adjustment by the vehicle seat occupant by manipulating a rod extending toward the front of the vehicle seat adjuster or by a vehicle occupant seated rearwardly manipulating a second rod extending toward the rearward end of the vehicle seat adjuster. Although particularly useful in van-type vehicles, this seat adjuster may also be used in conventional passenger vehicles. The seat adjuster has two latches which are moved to a nonengaged or release position by manipulation of a slidably mounted roller which is displaced by a rod to tension a cable connected to both of the latches.