Patent ID: 8177281

Claim:
A stowable vehicle seat, comprising: a seat cushion that is rotatable with respect to a vehicle body floor surface and a seat back, mounted to the seat cushion to be rotatable with respect to the seat cushion and is foldable by a rotating of the seat cushion and the seat back: the stowable vehicle seat further comprising: a foot lock mechanism for inhibiting the rotating of the seat cushion; a reclining lock mechanism for inhibiting the rotating of the seat back; a strap pullable toward any pull direction; and a lock releasing mechanism for keeping and releasing the rotate inhibiting states of the foot lock mechanism and the reclining lock mechanism via the pulling operation of the strap, the lock releasing mechanism being configured so that: in a case where the pull direction of the strap is a first direction within a predetermined angular range, the rotate inhibiting states of both the foot lock mechanism and the reclining lock mechanism are released; and in a case where the pull direction of the strap is a second direction out of the predetermined angular range, the rotate inhibiting states of both the foot lock mechanism and the reclining lock mechanism are kept.