Patent ID: 8177279

Claim:
A vehicular seat comprising: a seat cushion for seating a passenger; a support mechanism that is configured to include a link member, one end side of which is rotatably coupled to the seat cushion and the other end side of which is rotatably coupled to a vehicle body floor, and which supports the seat cushion with respect to the vehicle body floor, the seat cushion having a use position where a passenger is capable of sitting on the seat cushion and a storage position where the seat cushion is slid to a rear lower side of the use position, wherein a top surface of the seat cushion faces upward in both the use position and the storage position; a seat back that is supported on the vehicle body floor such that the seat back is rotatable between an upright position where the seat back supports the back of a passenger who is seated on the seat cushion that has been disposed in the use position and a forwardly collapsed position where the seat back is disposed in line in front of the seat cushion that has been moved to the storage position; and a holding mechanism that holds the seat cushion in the use position and is capable of releasing the seat cushion from the use position and an urging member that urges the seat cushion toward the storage position.