Patent ID: 8506013

Claim:
A vehicle seat comprising: a seat cushion; a seatback that is rotatably attached to the seat cushion; a bracket, including a front stopper portion and a rear stopper portion, that is connected to the seat cushion; a hook member that is connected to the seatback, positioned between the front stopper portion and the rear stopper portion of the bracket, and movable between the front stopper portion and the rear stopper portion; a spring that urges the seatback to a raised upright position from a reclined position in which the seatback is tilted back behind the seat cushion; and a shield member that covers the spring and is attached to the seat cushion, wherein the spring is spiral shaped with a center-side end portion that is arranged near a rotational center axis of the seatback and hooked on a hook of the hook member that is positioned above the rotational center axis of the seatback, and an outside end portion that is positioned on an outer peripheral side of the spring and hooked on a hook positioned proximate the rear stopper portion of the bracket.