Patent ID: 7273243

Claim:
Seat for a rear row of seats in a vehicle, the seat comprising: a) a seat portion frame, a backrest frame, a seat portion, and a backrest; b) the backrest being foldable forwardly onto the seat portion around a folding axis located between the seat portion frame and the backrest frame; c) front and rear legs, and the front and rear legs each connected via a pivot joint to the seat portion frame, and the front legs being detachably supported on a floor of a vehicle, in use, and the rear legs being pivotably fastened to the floor of the vehicle at their lower ends via a pivot joint, in use; d) the backrest being unlatchable by a strap attached to a back side of the seat, thus allowing it to be folded forward onto the seat portion to define a package, and after which the package including the seat portion and the forward-folded backrest can be pivoted around the pivot joints of the rear legs, once a latching of the legs on the vehicle floor has been released, with the back side of the backrest facing upward, into a recess that is provided in a cargo area behind the row of seats of a vehicle, in use, and such that the back side of the backrest ultimately is substantially flush with the floor of the cargo area, in use; e) the seat portion frame including a base frame and a seat cushion frame; f) the front and rear legs being attached to the base frame, and the folding axis with the backrest being defined in the base frame; g) the back end of the seat cushion frame being connected to the backrest frame on both sides via a pivot joint arranged at a distance in front of the folding axis, and its front end being supported on both sides on the base frame via links; and h) the strap being secured at the back end of the seat cushion frame, and the strap being configured and located so that, in use, by pulling on the strap, first the folding axis of the backrest is unlatched, and so that with continued pulling on the strap with a simultaneous lowering of the seat cushion frame relative to the base frame, the backrest is automatically lowered onto the seat portion, and with continued pulling on the strap the rear legs are unlatched and the seat can be lowered into the recess of a vehicle, in use.