Patent ID: 6283528
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
A folding motor vehicle entry seat for persons who use wheelchairs and others who have physical limitations, which vehicle entry seat attaches to the body of the vehicle such as by utilizing existing vehicle connecting means used to mount a seat of the vehicle to the body of the vehicle and/or to the floor of the body of the vehicle, which vehicle entry seat mounts adjacent to the vehicle seat above the lower doorway portion of the vehicle body, comprising:a main frame means which extends generally adjacent to the vehicle seat, which main frame means attaches to the body of the vehicle, and which includes a seat stop means attached thereto;a seat means which is pivotally connected to said main frame means at an inside edge portion of said seat means generally adjacent the vehicle seat, said seat means having a deployed position with the vehicle door open extending generally horizontally, laterally of the vehicle over the lower doorway portion of the vehicle body, wherein said seat stop means contacts and retains said seat means in such deployed position, and wherein said seat means includes a stowed position wherein said seat means pivots to a generally vertical position adjacent the vehicle seat allowing the vehicle door to close; andwherein said main frame means includes a guide means such that said inside edge portion of said seat means moves from the stowed position vertically upwardly along said guide means to the deployed position wherein said seat stop means vertically retains said seat means in said deployed position, and wherein to return said seat to the stowed position said seat means is moved to a generally vertical position and said seat means is moved vertically downwardly along said guide means to the stowed position so as to fit in such stowed position adjacent the vehicle seat, and wherein said seat means comprises a seat assembly having a seat and a pivot means for pivotally slidably connecting said inside edge portion of said seat to said guide means.