Rear seat for use in a motor vehicle
AssigneeP.A. Rentrop Hubbert & Wagner Fahrzeugausstattungen GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsErnst Wahlmann, Karl-Heinz Klausing
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Abstract
A rear seat for a motor vehicle includes a seat part and a back rest pivo to the seat part. The seat is mounted so that it can be moved between an inoperative position, in which the seat part and back rest are folded together and positioned approximately parallel to the back rest of the vehicle's front seat, and several operative positions. The seat part is mounted to the floor of the vehicle by a first link. A second link is pivotally mounted at one end to the back rest and has a journal at the other end. A locking member is movable between a locking position in which it holds the journal pivotably to an adjacent part of the vehicle and an unlocked position in which the journal is released to allow the seat to be moved to its inoperative position.
Claims9
A rear seat for use in a motor vehicle having a front seat including a back rest, said rear seat including
- a seat part having front and rear portions,
- a back rest articulated to said rear portion of said seat part,
- a spindle extending transversely adjacent said front portion of said seat part,
- a first link having two ends, said link being pivotally mounted at one of said ends to said spindle and pivotally mounted at the other of said ends to said front portion of said seat part,
- a second link having two ends, said second link being pivotally mounted at one said end to said back rest,
- a journal bearing mounted to the other said end of said second link, and
- a locking member movable between a locked and a released position, and mounted to the vehicle and adapted to secure said journal for rotation only when in its locked position, whereby when said locking member is in its released position said seat is able to adopt an inoperative position in which said seat part is substantially parallel to the back rest of the front seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.