US Patent Issued to Magna Seating on Nov. 4 for "Seat with power pitch easy entry having lower disc actuator" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,404, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Magna Seating Inc. (Aurora, Canada).

"Seat with power pitch easy entry having lower disc actuator" was invented by David M. Runde (Ortonville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pitch assembly for a vehicle seat includes a drive pinion having a slot, a pinion actuator having a key positioned within the slot, a cam fixedly coupled to the pinion actuator by a drive shaft, a drive motor operatively coupled to the drive shaft and configured to rotate the drive shaft, and an actuator lever operatively coupled to the cam and operatively coupled to a disc mechanism. The drive motor rotates the drive...