摘要 |
A seat reclining apparatus includes: a base plate fixed to a seat bottom or a seatback and including a plurality of guiding portions extending in a radial direction of the base plate; a gear plate fixed to the seat bottom or the seatback, the gear plate rotatably assembled at the base plate and formed with internal teeth; a lock gear assembled at the base plate and guided by the guiding portions of the base plate to be movable in the radial direction, the lock gear being formed with external teeth engageable with the internal teeth of the gear plate. At least one external tooth, which is positioned at a front end or a rear end from a rearward tilting direction of the seatback, has a radius of a pitch circle being smaller than a radius of a pitch circle of the internal teeth of the gear plate.
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