Patent ID: 7172249

Claim:
A motor vehicle seat comprising: a seat frame; a backrest which is pivotally mounted on the seat frame and which is folded forwards from a useful position towards a seat surface of the seat frame; a longitudinal guide with which the seat frame is movable in the seat longitudinal direction for adjusting the longitudinal position of the seat, a fixing device for locking the seat frame in a previously adjusted seat longitudinal position; an actuating element for releasing the fixing device so that the seat frame is movable in the seat longitudinal direction; a coupling mechanism which acts on the actuating element and releases the fixing device when the backrest has been folded forwards towards the seat surface; a memory device with which the seat frame, when moving in the seat longitudinal direction, is automatically stoppable in an adjustable seat longitudinal position defined as a memory position; a locking device of the memory device for locking a set memory position; and a lever through which the locking device is coupled to the backrest; wherein the backrest is coupled to the fixing device on one side and to the locking device on the other side so that when folding the backrest forwards towards the seat surface, at first by the locking device the actual seat longitudinal position is locked as the memory position and then the fixing device is released.