Patent ID: 7086696

Claim:
A vehicle seat comprising: a seat back supported to a body floor of a vehicle; a seat cushion pivotally supported at both sides thereof to said seat back by means of a pair of supporting shafts so as to be tipped up relative to said seat back; leg means pivotally supported to a lower portion of said seat cushion; spring means for biasing said leg means in such a direction as to be away from a bottom surface of said seat cushion; stopper means for stopping said leg means against an action of said spring means and keeping said leg means vertically standing from said bottom surface of said seat cushion; and means for causing said leg means to be operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means, synchronously with the tipping-up of said seat cushion relative to said seat back; said means for causing said leg means to be operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means, comprising a stationary pulley mounted on one of said supporting shafts and fixed on one of said both sides of said seat cushion, and a traction cable connected between said leg means and said stationary pulley so that when said seat cushion is tipped up around said supporting shafts, said traction cable is synchronously pulled, whereby the leg means is operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means.