Patent ID: 7401851

Claim:
A selectively operable rear row seat system for carrying at least one additional passenger in a vehicle, comprising: at least one vehicle frame member; a seat back frame mountable to the at least one vehicle frame member, such that the seat back frame is movable between a retracted position and an extended position; and a roll bar defined at least in part by the seat back frame for movement with the seat back frame between a stowed position when the seat is in the retracted position and a deployed position when the seat is in the extended position, the roll bar defined by a generally U-shaped structural member having two laterally spaced apart legs with outer ends to be interlocked with respect to the at least one vehicle frame member when in the extended position and an opposite closed end, the seat back frame extending between and defined at least in part by the two laterally spaced apart legs of the U-shaped structural member.