Patent ID: 8167366

Claim:
A motor vehicle seat comprising: a seat cushion; and a backrest that can be folded onto the seat cushion, which includes a rear face having a tablet-forming element, the rear face being brought into a substantially horizontal position when the backrest is folded onto the seat cushion, wherein the tablet-forming element includes a turntable pivot-mounted on the rear face of the backrest about a single axis, substantially perpendicular to the rear face, the turntable defining an outermost surface of at least a portion of the backrest and configured to be pivoted about the single axis, the pivoting constituting the only degree of freedom of the turntable with respect to the backrest, into a position in which a portion of the turntable protrudes laterally outward from an edge of the rear face of the backrest, and the backrest includes a headrest-forming portion defining an uppermost portion of the vehicle seat when in an upright position, the single axis of rotation of the turntable being positioned in a region of the headrest-forming portion.