Patent ID: 11904743
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 13:
14. A vehicle comprising:
a cabin interior;
a floor;
a tailgate at the rear end of the cabin interior, wherein at least a portion of the tailgate pivots between a vertical closed position and a horizontal open position;
a first seat track assembly comprising a first pair of seat tracks supported on the floor in the cabin interior;
a second seat track assembly comprising a second pair of seat tracks supported on the tailgate; and
a rear seat assembly comprising:
a first seat panel that serves as a seat base in a forward facing seat position and serves as a seat back in a rearward facing seat position;
a second seat panel that serves as a seat back in the forward facing seat position and serves as the seat based in the rearward facing seat position;
a bracket that allows the first seat panel and the second seat panel to pivot together at an angle of about 90° between the forward facing position and the rearward facing position; and
a guide supporting the bracket on one of the first and second seat track assemblies, wherein the seat assembly may slide rearward along the first seat track assembly and onto the second seat track assembly when the tailgate is in the open position.