B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – N
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
N
B60N 2/20 (2006.01) B60N 2/22 (2006.01) B62D 65/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2065126
An improved vehicle seat hinge assembly having first and second generally opposed and parallel hinge plates rigidly connected in spaced relation to one another, and a central third hinge plate partially sandwiched between said first and second hinge plates, is disclosed together with a process for assembling the hinge assembly. The first, second and third hinge plates have respective first, second and third openings therein. The third hinge plate is connected in hinged relation to the first and second hinge plates by a pivot pin, which has a longitudinal axis, a centrally disposed annular hub portion, and first and second shoulder portions extending in opposite axial directions from the hub portion. The first, third and second openings are aligned with one another so as to respectively receive in close- fitting operative engagement one each of the first shoulder portion, the annular hub portion and the second shoulder portion. The first and second openings define at least one keyway slot extending generally outwardly beyond the perimeter of the opening. The pivot pin has an amount of plastically deformable pin material adjacent at least one of the openings, and at least a portion of the amount of plastically deformable material is plastically deformed into the keyway slots in intimate and rotationally interfering relation between the pivot pin and the opening, whereby the pivot pin is rotationally fixed relative to the first and second hinge plates and the pivot pin is axially fixed relative to the first and second hinge plates.
Bertrand Faure Ltd.
Hofbauer Patrick J.
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