Rear seating for utility vehicle
AssigneePolaris Industries Inc.
InventorsBoris Rubanovich, Aaron D. Deckard
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a frame and a plurality of seats supported by the frame including at least one front seat and at least one rear seat. The at least one rear seat includes a seat back and a seat base, the seat back and the seat base being moveable between a lowered position and a raised position. The raised position is defined by the seat back and the seat base of the at least one rear seat being positioned at a first vertical height. The lowered position is defined by the seat back and the seat base of the at least one rear seat being positioned longitudinally rearward of the at last one front seat and at a second vertical height, the first vertical height being greater than the second vertical height.
Claims20
A modular seating and cargo system, comprising:
- a cargo assembly including a base, a front panel, a tailgate panel, and a pair of side panels;
- and
- a seating assembly comprising at least one seat base pivotably coupled to at least one seat back, the at least one seat base configured to pivot relative to the at least one seat back between:
- (a) a collapsed position in which a major surface of the seat base is oriented at an acute angle relative to a major surface of the seat back;
- and
- (b) a use position in which the major surface of the seat base is oriented at an obtuse angle relative to the major surface of the seat back in a conventional seating configuration;
- wherein the at least one seat back is fixedly coupled to a frame member, the frame member pivotably coupleable to an exterior support structure via one or more connectors, and configured to pivot, together with the at least one seat back, between:
- (i) a deployed position in which the frame member extends downwardly from the one or more connectors and supports the at least one seat base in the use position;
- and
- (ii) a storage position in which the frame member and the seat back are oriented substantially horizontally with respect to gravity, and the seat base is in the collapsed position such that the seat base and the seat back are suspended in a substantially horizontal configuration.
A modular seating assembly, comprising:
- at least one seat base pivotably coupled to at least one seat back, the at least one seat base being configured to pivot relative to the at least one seat back between:
- (a) a collapsed position in which a major surface of the seat base is oriented at an acute angle relative to a major surface of the seat back;
- and
- (b) a use position in which the major surface of the seat base is oriented at an obtuse angle relative to the major surface of the seat back in a conventional seating configuration;
- wherein the at least one seat back is fixedly coupled to a frame member, the frame member being pivotably coupleable to an exterior support structure via one or more connectors, and is configured to pivot, together with the at least one seat back, between:
- (i) a deployed position in which the frame member extends downwardly from the one or more connectors and supports the at least one seat base in the use position;
- and
- (ii) a storage position in which the frame member and the seat back are oriented substantially horizontally with respect to gravity, and the seat base is in the collapsed position such that the seat base and the seat back are suspended in a substantially horizontal configuration;
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- further comprising a latch assembly positioned at or above the same height as the one or more connectors and configured to retain the seat back in the storage position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.