Patent ID: 8540308

Claim:
A stowable vehicle seat comprising: a first seat support for rotatably supporting one end part side of a seat cushion; a seat back foldable over the seat cushion via a reclining assembly; a second seat support provided on an other end part side of the seat cushion; an engaging and disengaging elements that engage and disengage the second seat support with and from a vehicle body floor side; and an urging element mounted to the first seat support that urge the seat cushion to an upright seat position, which is a restoration rotating direction, wherein the urging element comprises a plurality of urging springs, each of the urging springs having one end part always locked to the seat cushion side and an other end part engageable with and disengageable from the vehicle body floor side, and each of the urging springs having a same urging direction; the other end part of each of the urging springs engages with the vehicle body floor side when a rotating angle of the seat cushion is at a predetermined angle, the predetermined angle for each of the urging springs being different; and the urging force of the urging element is changed stepwise according to the rotating angle of the seat cushion.