Patent ID: 8496290

Claim:
A motor vehicle seat arrangement, comprising: a first seat having a seat bottom and a seat back; a second seat having a seat bottom and a seat back; and a third seat arranged between the first seat and the second seat, the third seat comprising: a seat bottom, a seat back having a height substantially equal to a height of the seat back of the first seat and the seat back of the second seat, wherein the entire seat back of the third seat is adapted to tilt towards the seat bottom from a substantially upright use position into a substantially horizontal non-use position along a first axis, wherein the seat back is in the substantially horizontal non-use position, a rear portion of the seat back is configured to be tilted about a tilting axis extending in a seat direction from a lower armrest non-use position into an upper armrest use position for forming an armrest, wherein the tilting axis is substantially perpendicular to the first axis, the seat back further comprising: a releasable interlock locking the seat backseat back in the lower armrest non-use position, wherein when the releasable interlock is released the seat backseat back is automatically loaded into the upper armrest use position from the lower armrest non-use position.