Claims:We Claim:
1. A slidable vehicle seat system for passenger vehicle comprises:
a slider mounted on a pedestal platform structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat arrangement horizontally, wherein said slider system comprises of a front slider and a rear slider coupled with a guide to guide the sliding movement and wherein the front slider is having plurality of angularly inverted extrusion capable of getting interlocked at a predetermined position.

2. The seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pedestal platform is structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat horizontally.

3. The seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pedestal platform is having horizontal slider guide rail mounted onto said pedestal adapted to guide slider to slide horizontally.

4. The seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of seat assembly mounted on the pedestal platform includes high back seat assembly, plastic seat assembly, recliner seat assembly and the like.

5. The seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the slidable seat assembly is mounted on to slider guide rails/horizontal seat slider and wherein window seat assembly is fixedly mounted on to the frame structure of pedestal.

6. The seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said guide is an actuator adapted to pulls up and down enabling the locking and unlocking mechanism of said slider at predetermined position.

7. The seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said predetermined positions are the position where user want to lock and unlock the slider.

8. The seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sliding seat assembly is preferably asile seat assembly of the passenger vehicle.

9. The seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said silder comprises of an outer channel and an inner channel, wherein said outer channel and inner channel is slidably connected through a ball cage to allow sliding with minimum friction and wherein outer channel is fixedly mounted on to bottom of the seat assembly and inner channel of slider is fixedly mounted on to the top of pedestal frame.

10. A horizontal sliding mechanism of a passenger vehicle seat system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mechanism comprises:
actuating the actuator in upward direction enabling the unlocking of outer and inner part of front slider from its locked position;
sliding the seat horizontally from its locked position towards the predetermined wider position; and
de-actuating the guide actuator enabling the interlocking of outer and inner part of the front slider at the predetermined wider position.
, Description:SLIDABLE SEAT SYSTEM FOR A PASSENGER VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF

Field of the Invention
In general, the invention relates to seat arrangement for vehicles. In particular, the present invention provides a system and method for horizontal sliding mechanism of a seat for passenger vehicle.

Background of the Invention
In general, every day we commute from one place to another using one of the public transport and we come across a lot of problems while travelling and the most prominent being the seating arrangement in the passenger vehicles. The seat near window is usually placed as much close as possible to side wall whereas the adjusting seat is provided with an armrest which acts as railing to prevent accidental slip/ sliding of passenger, thus the space available for two passengers gets restricted with a maximum length available between the side wall of vehicle and arm rest of adjusting seat. Most of the times, this restriction causes uneasiness to both passengers occupying the twin seats. To overcome this difficulty and provide some relief to passengers travelling for long distance, a unique solution has been formulated.

Though various kinds of work in this field has been done in the past but each of them was accompanied with a high cost and a complex structure. There are few evidences that will reflect the complex structure and unnecessary costs involved in the seats as below.

Patent application US7040696B2 discloses a seating system for a vehicle having plurality of seats in a frame mounted on the vehicle in a row parallel to the direction of travel of vehicle, thus providing a restraint system of seating and still the passengers are not able to sit in a comfortable position and usually faces uneasiness in the long journey. At the same time, the multiple seats being arranged in a row making the structure complex and unnecessarily expensive.

Patent application EP2471684B1 discloses a sliding seat system for a passenger transport vehicle with a single seat being configured in a folded position and adapted to get converted into twin seats on actuation to receive the second passengers. It is effective in manipulating the space between two sides of the vehicle, but there is no comfort being guaranteed as such between the seats on getting unfolded. There is a lot of wear and tear during folding and unfolding of the seats thus reducing the smooth functioning of the seats. At the same time, the structure is way more complex and expensive.

In one of the video of non-patent literature, a seat in contact with the floor capable of sliding horizontally was arranged and illustrated along with its application, any single seat of the twin seats was capable of sliding along the horizontal axis in terms of expansion and contraction, but its main objective was to give passage to the passengers who are to sit on the back of the vehicle and leave the twin seats in a convenient position, but its limited to just small vehicles such as car or SUVs, so only one such seat arrangement can be mounted in the vehicle thereby not ensuring the seating comfort of every passenger in the vehicle.

Various systems and methods have been disclosed, however there are still many challenges to develop a cost effective seats which will provide a lot comfortable seating position to the passengers seated in the vehicle. It would be desirable to provide an innovative and improved sliding seat arrangement system for passenger vehicles. The system of this invention is developed and designed in such a manner that it overcomes all the drawback associated with the prior arts and provide passengers a comfortable journey experience.

Summary of the Invention
It is one of the objective of the present disclosure to provide a system and method for extending the space between the passenger seats horizontally to provide comfortable seating position to the passenger.

It is another objective of the present invention to provide a system to enable horizontal sliding mechanism in a passenger vehicle in a cost effective manner.

It is yet another objective of the present invention to provide a simple system and mechanism for a horizontal movement of the seat enabling confirmable seat positioning to the passenger.

It is yet another objective of the present invention to provide a simple system and mechanism for easy to handle for a horizontal movement of the seats thus overcoming all the drawbacks associated with the complexity in the structure of the prior arts.

The above and other objectives of the present invention are achieved according to the following embodiments of the present invention. However, the disclosed embodiments are exemplary based on the preferred and best mode of the invention and not limit the scope of the present invention.

In accordance with one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a slidable vehicle seat system comprises a slidable vehicle seat system for passenger vehicle comprises a slider mounted on a pedestal platform structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat arrangement horizontally, wherein said slider system comprises of a front slider and a rear slider coupled with a guide to guide the sliding movement and wherein the front sliders having plurality of angularly inverted extrusion capable of getting interlocked at a predetermined position.

In accordance with one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a slidable vehicle seat system comprises a slidable vehicle seat system for passenger vehicle comprises a slider mounted on a pedestal platform structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat arrangement horizontally, wherein said slider system comprises of a front slider and a rear slider coupled with a guide to guide the sliding movement and wherein the front sliders having plurality of angularly inverted extrusion capable of getting interlocked at a predetermined position, wherein said pedestal platform is structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat horizontally.

In accordance with one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a slidable vehicle seat system comprises a slidable vehicle seat system for passenger vehicle comprises a slider mounted on a pedestal platform structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat arrangement horizontally, wherein said slider system comprises of a front slider and a rear slider coupled with a guide to guide the sliding movement and wherein the front sliders having plurality of angularly inverted extrusion capable of getting interlocked at a predetermined position, wherein said pedestal platform is having horizontal slider guide rail mounted onto said pedestal adapted to guide slider to slide horizontally.

In accordance with one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a slidable vehicle seat system comprises a slidable vehicle seat system for passenger vehicle comprises a slider mounted on a pedestal platform structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat arrangement horizontally, wherein said slider system comprises of a front slider and a rear slider coupled with a guide to guide the sliding movement and wherein the front sliders having plurality of angularly inverted extrusion capable of getting interlocked at a predetermined position, wherein a plurality of seat assembly mounted on the pedestal platform selected from

In accordance with one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a slidable vehicle seat system comprises a slidable vehicle seat system for passenger vehicle comprises a slider mounted on a pedestal platform structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat arrangement horizontally, wherein said slider system comprises of a front slider and a rear slider coupled with a guide to guide the sliding movement and wherein the front sliders having plurality of angularly inverted extrusion capable of getting interlocked at a predetermined position, wherein the slidable seat assembly is mounted on to slider guide rails/horizontal seat slider and wherein window seat assembly is fixedly mounted on to the frame structure of pedestal.
In accordance with one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a slidable vehicle seat system comprises a slidable vehicle seat system for passenger vehicle comprises a slider mounted on a pedestal platform structured to mount said slider capable of sliding the seat arrangement horizontally, wherein said slider system comprises of a front slider and a rear slider coupled with a guide to guide the sliding movement and wherein the front sliders having plurality of angularly inverted extrusion capable of getting interlocked at a predetermined position, wherein said guide is an actuator adapted to pulls up and down enabling the locking and unlocking mechanism of said slider at predetermined position.

In accordance with the various embodiments disclosed above detailed about the system , wherein said system is performed by a mechanism comprises actuating the actuator in upward direction enabling the unlocking of outer and inner part of front slider from its locked position, sliding the seat horizontally from its locked position towards the predetermined wider position and de-actuating the guide actuator enabling the interlocking of outer and inner part of the front slider at the predetermined wider position.

These and other embodiments, processes and features of the invention will become more fully apparent when the following detailed description is read with the accompanying drawing figures. However, both the foregoing summary of the invention and the following detailed description of it represent one potential embodiment and are not restrictive of the invention or other alternate embodiments of the invention.
Brief Description of Drawings
To illustrate the solutions according to the embodiments of the present disclosure more clearly, the accompanying drawings needed for describing the embodiments are introduced below briefly. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following descriptions merely show some of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and persons skilled in the art may obtain other drawings according to the accompanying drawings without creative efforts.
Figure 1 illustrates a dissected view of the slider mounted on to the pedestal frame and the seat assembly.
Figure 2 illustrates a side view of normal stage and slidable stage of a seat assembly
Figure 3 illustrates a front view of normal stage and slidable stage of a seat assembly

Detailed description of the Invention
The following is a detailed description of embodiments of the disclosure depicted in the accompanying drawings. The embodiments are in such detail as to clearly communicate the disclosure. However, the amount of detail offered is not intended to limit the anticipated variations of embodiments; on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.

Various terms as used herein are shown below. To the extent a term used in a disclosure is not defined below, it should be given the broadest definition persons in the pertinent art have given that term as reflected in printed publications and issued patents at the time of filing.

The vehicle used herein in the invention is preferably a passenger vehicle. In Passenger commuting vehicles, the front facing seats usually are placed on both sides i.e. Twin Seats on both sides of vehicle or twin seat at one side and single seat on other side. These typical seating layouts are most popular and provided by OEMs as per demand of customers. However, said system is adapted for single seat, twin seat, and multiple seat arrangement and configurable to modify the number of seats in the vehicle and wherein the seat assembly includes but not excludes high back seat assembly, plastic seat assembly, recliner seat assembly and the like.

According to the present invention, the term ‘predetermined position’ used herein determined by calculating the required wider space between window seat assembly and asile seat assembly and wherein said predetermined positions are the position where user want to lock and unlock the slider.

The sliding seat assembly according to the present invention comprises plurality of sliding seat assembly of any design wherein the used seat assembly for the sliding mechanism is preferably asile seat assembly of the passenger vehicle.

According to the present invention, there is a locking mechanism which is mounted on to the outer channel of front slider and configured to fix to bottom of the seat assembly enables entire seat to slide from right to left or from left to right, wherein inner channel is stationary and supports the slider to move in both directions.

The silder according to the present invention comprises of an outer channel and an inner channel, wherein said outer channel and inner channel is slidably connected through a ball cage to allow sliding with minimum friction, wherein outer channel is fixedly mounted on to bottom of the seat assembly and inner channel of slider is fixedly mounted on to the top of pedestal frame.

Referring Figure 1, a pair of rectangular annular leg 101 firmly is fixed on the floor of the passenger vehicle supporting rectangular pedestal 102 mounted on the pair of legs 101 for containing the seat assembly 105 wherein a pair of horizontal seat slider(103 & 104) is mounted on the asile portion of the pedestal 102 enabling asile seat side movement as a result of manually applied force in upward direction using actuator 106 wherein the horizontal seat slider(103 & 104) comprises of a front slider 103 and a rear slider 104.
Each of the slider has an outer and an inner channel wherein the inner channel is fixed on the surface of pedestal 102 and the outer channel moves over the inner channel. The outer and inner channel in the front slider 103 has multiple number of teeth responsible for interlocking mechanism movement making the asile seat movement within predetermined range of positions while the inner and outer channel of rear slider are toothless as its movement is just for supporting the front slider and moving the entire asile seat together wherein the outer channel of rear slider 104 slides exactly equal to the movement of outer channel on the inner channel of the front slider 103 in the horizontal direction. The actuator 106 is attached to the front slider 103 and manually applied force in the upward direction disengages the teeth of inner and outer channel of the front slider 103 enabling it to move in the horizontal direction along with the rear slider 104 and on further releasing the actuator 106 back to its original position, the teeth of both the channels re-engages with each other at the predetermined position of the seat assembly 105 wherein said predetermined positions are between the positions when disengagements and re-engagements of teeth of outer and inner channel of the front slider takes place.

Side wall Seat Assembly 105 is fixedly mounted directly on the pedestal 102 and asile seat assembly 105 is mounted on the horizontal seat slider (103 & 104) which is further mounted on the pedestal 102, wherein passenger body can rest against the higher back of seat assemblies. Seat Assembly 105 can also be a plastic seat or made of any other material with an ability to recline backwards and come back to its normal position when brought forward.

Figure 2 illustrates the horizontal movement of the asile seat 105 when a manual upward force is applied on the actuator 106 enabling it to move from its first predetermined position to second. While sliding of asile seat 105, the actuator 106 also moves along with the seat in the horizontal direction of seat. When the actuator 106 is pulled in upward direction, the teeth of outer and inner channel of front slider disengages with each other at first predetermined position and allows the entire asile seat assembly 105 to move horizontally and stops at a specific position when teeth of outer and inner channel of front slider re-engages with each other at second predetermined position, wherein said first predetermined position is the normal and second predetermined position is wider seating position.

Referring Figure 3, the front view of the seat assembly is illustrating the horizontal asile seat movement between the predetermined positions, wherein the predetermined positions are towards the side wall 301 and towards the asile 302. The two positions of actuator in the horizontal direction can also be seen in the figure showing the normal and wider seating position, wherein the wider seating position is achieved by asile side movement of seat assembly towards asile 302 and normal seating position is when the asile seat assembly is more towards the side wall 301.

While the invention is amenable to various modifications and alternative forms, some embodiments have been illustrated by way of example in the drawings and are described in detail above. The intention, however, is not to limit the invention by those examples and the invention is intended to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives to the embodiments described in this specification.

The embodiments in the specification are described in a progressive manner and focus of description in each embodiment is the difference from other embodiments. For same or similar parts of each embodiment, reference may be made to each other.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the above description was in respect of preferred embodiments and that various alterations and modifications are possible within the broad scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention with the necessary modifications.

Based on the description of disclosed embodiments, persons skilled in the art can implement or apply the present disclosure. Various modifications of the embodiments are apparent to persons skilled in the art, and general principles defined in the specification can be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments in the specification but intends to cover the most extensive scope consistent with the principle and the novel features disclosed in the specification.