Patent ID: 9511689
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: B60N

Claim Text:
1. A seating apparatus for a vehicle, in which a seat cushion is flipped up toward a front of the vehicle from a use position allowing a passenger to sit on the seat cushion, the seating apparatus comprising: a link member which is pivotable in a manner such that the seat cushion is flipped up from the use position toward the front of the vehicle; and a locking device associated with the seat cushion and capable of restricting pivotal movement of the link member, wherein the locking device includes a rocking member supported on the seat cushion and rockable between a normal position permitting the pivotal movement of the link member and a rocked position restricting the pivotal movement of the link member, and an urging member which urges the rocking member toward the normal position, wherein the rocking member includes a weight which, in response to backward inertial force acting upon the seat cushion, rocks from the normal position to the rocked position due to the inertial force, against force of the urging member, and a pawl which rocks from the normal position to the rocked position along with the weight and engages with the link member to restrict the pivotal movement of the link member, wherein the link member extends in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and has a front end coupled to the vehicle body so as to be pivotable in the longitudinal direction and a rear end coupled to the seat cushion so as to be pivotable in the longitudinal direction, wherein forward rocking motion of the seat cushion from the use position about the front end of the link member is restricted by a restricting device, and the seat cushion is rocked forward by raising a front of the seat cushion from the use position about the rear end of the link member and then rocking the seat cushion forward about the front end of the link member, and wherein the seat cushion includes an engaging device capable of elastically engaging with and disengaging from the link member in the use position, and the engaging device is disengaged from the link member by moving the front of the seat cushion upward.