Patent ID: 7331630

Claim:
A bearing for a folding backrest in a vehicle, comprises a bearing arm connected in a rotatable manner to a fixed bearing block, the bearing arm includes a locking element which, when the bearing arm is rotated rapidly about a joint, is guided by the bearing arm along a slotted guide toward a stop or into an end region of the slotted guide, and, upon slow rotation, allows the bearing arm to rotate freely, and the slotted guide has a recess which, when the bearing arm is rotated slowly, allows the locking element to get out of the way of a pivoting region of said bearing arm, the locking element running with two spaced-apart sliding bodies in the slotted guide and a spacing between the two sliding bodies serving to temporarily accommodate one end of the bearing arm, wherein a pin is provided on the locking element, said pin engaging in a recess in the bearing block, wherein the pin moves in a radius about one of the two sliding bodies remaining in the slotted guide and moves approximately parallel to the slotted guide.