Patent ID: 7014263

Claim:
A vehicle seat, comprising: a seat cushion; a seat back forwardly and rearwardly rotatably supported on a vehicle floor bracket about a rotational axis; a supporting mechanism movably supporting the seat cushion on the vehicle floor bracket; and a connecting mechanism interconnecting the seat cushion and seat back, the connecting mechanism comprising a first linking member fixedly connected to the seat cushion and a second linking member rotatably connected to the seat back via a first pivot pin that is offset from the rotational axis of the seat back; and wherein the first and second linking members are restrictively rotatably interconnected via a second pivot pin such that when the seat back is rotated forwardly from a normal position, the first and second linking members are inhibited from rotation relative to each other, so that the seat cushion can be repositioned forwardly and downwardly and that when the seat back is rotated rearwardly from the normal position, the first and second linking members are rotated relative to each other so that the seat cushion can be maintained in a substantially stationary position; and the second pivot pin is arranged and constructed so as to be coaxially aligned with the rotational axis of the seat back when the seat back is recline rearwardly from the normal position so that the seat back is independently rotated without moving the seat cushion after the second pivot pin aliens with the rotational axis.