Patent ID: 7490900

Claim:
Vehicle seat, comprising: a) a seat portion and a backrest with side wings that can be folded forward onto the seat portion around a backrest swiveling axis, in use, to provide a substantially horizontal loading area in a cargo position; b) an adjustment device provided and configured for flattening the contour of the side wings when the backrest is folded forward onto the seat portion, in use, the adjustment device being provided in the side wings; c) a wing device provided inside each side wing, the wing device determining the contour of the side wing, with the wing device swiveling in a longitudinal direction on a backrest frame via a lever mechanism; d) the backrest being locked and released when the backrest is in the use position; e) a prestressed tension device being connected to the lever mechanism with the tension device exerting tension on the lever mechanism when the backrest is folded forward, in use, causing the wing device to swivel horizontally inward in the direction of the backrest frame to flatten the contour of the side wings; f) a lever mechanism provided which includes a two-armed lever provided in a swiveling manner on a hinge pin fixed on the backrest frame, and one of whose lever arms is connected in an articulated manner to a free end of the wing device via a connecting rod, and on whose other lever arm a spring prestressed catch is provided in a pivoting manner on a hinge pin; and g) a spring prestressed operating lever provided around an axis with the lever having a pin jutting out to the side that extends into an angle-shaped connecting link of a catch, and on which the pull mechanism engages with one end, and that is wound onto a winding coil with another end in a prestressed manner.