Gearbox for actuating a component of a vehicle seat

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9835233
APP PUB NO 20170204949A1
SERIAL NO

14997760

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A gearbox for actuating at least one component of a vehicle seat. The gearbox includes a housing. An input pulley and an output pulley are rotatably coupled to the housing. A sun gear is attached to one of the pulleys. A ring gear is coupled to the housing and disposed about the sun gear. A plurality of planetary gears are attached to the other of the pulleys and are operably engaged with the sun gear and the ring gear. An input cable is coupled to the input pulley to rotate the input pulley in a first direction. An output cable is coupled to the output pulley and moves in a first direction in response to rotation of the input pulley. A biasing member is operatively connected to the output pulley to rotate the output pulley in a second direction opposite of the first direction to move the input cable.

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Patent Owner(s)

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KONGSBERG INTERIOR SYSTEMS II LLC1931 ANEI CIRCLE SUITE A BROWNSVILLE TX 78526

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dunn, Sean Taylor, US 4 22
Fritz, Ashley Macomb, US 1 6
Harvester, Kelly Brighton, US 2 12

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