Patent ID: 9586503
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: B60N

Claim:
1. A vehicle seat having opposite inboard and outboard sides, the vehicle seat comprising: a seat back pivotably coupled with a seat bottom by a locking mechanism for relative movement toward and away from each other about a transverse pivot axis, wherein the locking mechanism is changeable between a locked position, in which the locking mechanism prevents the seat back and seat bottom from moving relative to each other, and an unlocked position, in which the locking mechanism allows the seat back and seat bottom to freely move relative to each other; and a torsion bar that biases the seat back toward the seat bottom about the pivot axis when in a loaded condition, the torsion bar comprising: wherein the torsional axis forms an angle with the transverse pivot axis, said angle being in a range between 0.5 degrees and 45 degrees.