Patent ID: 7980617

Claim:
A vehicle seat unit comprising a left-side passenger seat including a left seat base and a left seat back extending upwardly from the left seat base, a right-side passenger seat including a right seat base and a right seat back extending upwardly from the right seat base, a partition located between the left-side and right-side passenger seats, wherein the partition includes a non-rotatable middle seat base located between the left and right seat bases, a left inner wing supported for clockwise pivotable movement relative to the middle seat base from a retracted back-support position located between the left and right seat backs to form a first portion of a middle seat back extending upwardly from the middle seat base and an extended shoulder-support position arranged to lie over the middle seat base and at a first included angle to the left seat back to form a left shoulder support associated with the left-side passenger seat, and a right inner wing supported for counterclockwise pivotable movement relative to the middle seat base from a retracted back-support position located between the left and right seat backs to form a second portion of the middle seat back and an extended shoulder-support position arranged to lie over the middle seat base and at a second included angle to the right seat back to form a right shoulder support associated with the right-side passenger seat, and wherein each of the left and right inner wings includes a bottom edge directly adjacent to the seat base.