Arrangement in a vehicle seat

• US 4,512,609 A
• Filed: 03/25/1983
• Issued: 04/23/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Saab-Scania Aktiebolag (Saab AB)
• Original Assignee: Saab-Scania Aktiebolag (Saab AB)
• Inventors: Parsson, Nils O.
• Primary Examiner(s): McCall, James T.
• Application Number:
  US06/479,031
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• Field of Search: 297/331, 297/335, 297/336, 297/313, 296/69, 296/65 R
• US Class Current: 297/331
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/3013 the back-rest being hinged on the vehicle frame
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/305 the cushion being hinged on the vehicle frame
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/36 into a loading platform B60N2/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/22 secured to the vehicle floor

Abstract

The invention relates to an arrangement in a passenger seat of a vehicle, preferably the back seat in a passenger car, for re-arranging said seat, including a seat cushion and a back cushion, the former being articulatedly connected via a link to the vehicle body and being arrangeable between a normal sitting position and a retracted substantially vertical loading position. The back cushion is pivotably connected to the vehicle body and arrangeable between a normal back support position and a swung-down substantially horizontal loading position. In their respective normal positions the rear end of the seat cushion is situated under the lower end of the back cushion. With the object of facilitating the movement of the seat cushion from sitting position to tipping position, especially for large thickness of the back cushion upholstery, the invention is substantially distinguished in that the link is pivotably attached to the seat cushion via a first joint and to the body via a second joint so that the first joint in the normal sitting position of the seat cushion is situated closer to the back cushion than the second joint and in that the first joint permits a substantially parallel displacement of the seat cushion from its normal sitting position to a tipping position, whereby the distance (d) between said positions is greater than a distance (a) between the rear end of the seat cushion and the lower forward edge of the back cushion in the normal sitting position of the seat cushion.

Claims

1. Arrangement in a passenger seat in a vehicle, preferably a passenger car back seat, for re-arranging said seat, including a seat cushion and a back cushion, said seat cushion being pivotably connected via at least one link to the vehicle body and separately arrangeable between a normal sitting position and a retracted substantially vertical loading position, the back cushion being pivotably connected to the vehicle body and separately arrangeable between a normal back support position and a downwardly-swung substantially horizontal loading position, the rear end of the seat cushion being situated under the lower end of the back cushion in their respective normal positions, characterized in that the link is pivotably attached to the seat cushion via a first joint and to the body via a second joint and in that in the normal sitting position of the seat cushion the first joint is situated closer to the back cushion than the second joint and above any supporting points between the seat cushion and the body, and in that the second joint is situated behind the forward end of the seat cushion, whereby a substantially parallel displacement of the seat cushion from its normal sitting position to a tipping position is allowed, the distance (d) between said positions being greater than a distance (a) between the rear end of the seat cushion and the lower forward edge of the back cushion in the normal sitting position of the seat cushion.

2. Arrangement as claimed in claim 1 characterized in that in the normal sitting position of the seat cushion the horizontal distance (b) between the first and second joint is more than 75 percent of the distance (a) between the rear end of the seat cushion and the lower forward edge of the back cushion.

3. Arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the seat cushion is provided at its rear end with a manually actuable catch mechanism which coacts for engagement with a catch member attached to the body in a rearwardly directed displacing movement of the seat cushion, for securing the seat cushion relative the body in a normal sitting position.

4. Arrangement as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that safety belt portions including yielding stem members attached to the body project forward between the rear end of the seat cushion and the forward edge of the back cushion in the normal sitting position of the seat cushion.