Patent ID: 7708331

Claim:
A seat device of a vehicle, comprising: a seat provided in a vehicle compartment, the seat comprising a seat cushion and a seat base portion provided below the seat cushion to support the seat cushion; a longitudinal slide rail arranged on a vehicle floor to support said seat such that the seat slides in a vehicle longitudinal direction between a pair of wheel houses, which are provided so as to project inside the vehicle compartment; a lateral sidle rail arranged between the seat cushion and the seat base portion of said seat to support the seat cushion on the seat base portion such that the seat cushion slides in a vehicle width direction relative to the seat base portion; wherein said seat is guided by said longitudinal slide rail and said lateral slide rail to take a first position in which the seat is located forward in the vehicle longitudinal direction and outward in the vehicle width direction, the first position overlapping with the wheel house in the vehicle width direction, said seat is guided by said longitudinal slide rail so as to take a second position in which the seat is located rearward in the vehicle longitudinal direction between the pair of wheel houses, the second position overlapping with the wheel houses in the vehicle longitudinal direction; and said seat device further comprises a rearward-slide restriction device to detect an outward slide of the seat to the first position by said lateral rail and restrict a rearward slide of the seat from the first position by said longitudinal slide rail beyond a specified amount of longitudinal slide of the seat.