Motor vehicle comprising a seat having a detachable sitting part for freeing access to a recess in the internal structure of the vehicle

• US 9,517,710 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2014
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Original Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Inventors: Correia, Miguel, Brotonne, Guillaume, Lancelot, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Kiran B
• Application Number:
  US14/771,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20160009208A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,030 Days
• Field of Search: 296/65
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/005 Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles , e.g. dismountable auxiliary seatsB60N2/02 takes precedence ; for railway vehicles B61D1/04
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/015 Attaching seats directly to vehicle chassis
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/682 Joining means
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/686 Panel like structures
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2002/684 the back rest being mounted or joined with an easy attachment system to the seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/043 mounted on or under a seat

Abstract

A motor vehicle includes a floor, an internal structure delimiting side panels of a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle, and a seat including a back part and a sitting part. The sitting part of the seat is detachable so that the sitting part can be entirely separated from the floor and from the internal structure of the vehicle to free access to a first recess in the internal structure of the motor vehicle.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle, comprising:

a floor;

an internal structure delimiting side panels of a passenger compartment of the vehicle; and

a seat comprising a back part and a sitting part,

wherein said sitting part of the seat is detachable so that the sitting part can be entirely separated from the floor and from the internal structure of the vehicle to free access to a first recess in the internal structure of the vehicle.

2. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said back part is detachable so that said back part can be entirely separated from the internal structure of the vehicle to free access to a second recess in said internal structure.

3. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said floor comprises means for mounting the sitting part, and said internal structure comprises means for receiving the back part.

4. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, further comprising common locking means adapted to simultaneously prevent the movement of the back part and of the sitting part.

5. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 4, wherein at least a part of said locking means belongs to the back part so that the back part is adapted to lock the sitting part in a mounted position on the vehicle.

6. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 4, wherein said locking means comprise:

a locking element belonging to the back part and configured to be moved between a locking position and a release position; and

a housing belonging to said sitting part and configured to receive the locking element in the locking position, the locking element and the housing being arranged such that any movement of the back part and the sitting part is prevented when the locking element is in the locking position.

7. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sitting part can be turned over, between a sitting position in which the sitting part is adapted to receive a passenger and a turned-over position in which the sitting part forms a housing in an interior of the sitting part, the motor vehicle further comprising locking means adapted to prevent movement of the sitting part in the sitting position and the turned-over position.

8. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said floor comprises a third recess located under the seat and facing the sitting part, access to the third recess being freed when said sitting part is detached from the rest of the seat.

9. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 2, wherein said first recess and said second recess in the internal structure of the vehicle communicate with one another.