Patent ID: 7290822

Claim:
An occupant seat system for a vehicle having a seat riser bracket and a floor with at least one footwell, the seat system comprising: a seat bracket operatively connected to at least one of the vehicle floor and the seat riser bracket; a seat back pivotally connected to the seat bracket, the seat back selectively rotatable between a seating configuration and a cargo configuration, the cargo configuration having the seat back substantially coplanar with the vehicle floor; a seat cooperatively connected to the seat bracket and to the seat back, whereby when the seat back is rotated from the seating configuration to the cargo configuration, the seat is substantially simultaneously translated and rotated into a stowed configuration whereby the seat is at least partially within the at least one footwell; the seat has an underside and wherein the seat back is pivotally connected to the seat bracket at a seat hinge point at one end thereof, the seat bracket having an end region distal to the one end and a substantially curved slot located below the hinge point, the seat system further comprising: a lumbar link pivotally connected at one end to the seat back above the seat hinge point and pivotally connected at an opposed end to the seat; a connecting link slidingly connected to the curved slot and pivotally connected to the lumbar link; a seat underside bracket connected to the seat underside, the seat underside bracket having a slot extending a predetermined length therewithin; and a cushion link pivotally connected to the seat bracket between the curved slot and the seat bracket end region, and slidingly connected to the seat underside bracket slot.