Patent ID: 7083214

Claim:
A movable seat for a vehicle having a passenger compartment; comprising: a seat body shiftable between inside and outside the passenger compartment of the vehicle through a rotate/drive mechanism; a seating member attached to the seat body through a connecting mechanism to be movable between a first position where a sitter is seated or unseated and a second position where the sitter is maintained seated, such that a location of a center of gravity of the sitter, when seated in the first position, with respect to a position of feet of the sitter is in a predetermined relationship; an actuator driving the connecting mechanism to move the seating member between the first and second positions; a switch for inputting an instruction to move the seating member between the first and second positions; and a controller controlling the actuator to move the seating member toward one of the first and second positions in response to the inputted instruction.