Patent ID: 7077463

Claim:
A split folding seat assembly for mounting to a vehicle floor, said vehicle floor having at least one passenger foot area, comprising a pair of passenger seats which may be independently folded from a seating position to a cargo position and back with a minimum of effort for use in a vehicle providing a split folding seat assembly in which the seat cushion is moved from a seating position forward and downward into a storage position in said passenger foot area and the seat back is moved forward and downward into the seat cushion seating position providing a flat load floor over a cargo area and the seat back comprising in cooperative combination: a pair of seat cushion frames, each of said seat cushion frames being moveably mounted by their front edges to a pair of legs, and said pair of seat cushion frames rear edges moveably mounted to a corresponding pair of seat back frames by a pair of seat folding links and further each said seat cushion frame having a seat cushion mounted thereon; two pair of seat legs having one end of each of said two pair of seat legs moveably mounted to the front edge of each of said seat cushion frames and the other end of each of said two pair of seat legs adapted to be moveably mounted to a vehicle floor, a pair of seat back frames, each of said seat back frames being moveably mounted on their bottom edges to the rear edge of the corresponding seat cushion frame by a pair of seat folding links, and further attached by their bottom edges by a pair of hinges to a pair of parallel seat tracks, and further each of said pair of seat back frames having a head restraint mounting member to which are attached a desired number of head restraints and each of said seat back frames having a seat back cushion mounted thereon; and a pair of parallel tracks, adapted to be fixedly mounted to a vehicle floor, for each of said pair of passenger seats having a seat back frame mounted thereto by means of a hinge allowing the seat backs to be independently moved laterally along the pair of parallel tracks during the folding and unfolding of each of said passenger seats.