Patent ID: 7150498

Claim:
A passenger seat for a conveyance, where the passenger seat ( 1 , 1 ′) comprises a frame ( 2 , 2 ′), which is fixed to a floor ( 3 , 3 ′) of the conveyance ( 20 ), a backrest ( 5 , 5 ′), which is connected to the frame ( 2 , 2 ′), a folding seat ( 7 , 7 ′), which has a sitting portion ( 10 , 10 ′), and which is mounted on the rear side ( 4 ) of the backrest ( 5 , 5 ′), where the folding seat is mounted on the backrest ( 5 , 5 ′), thus enabling the folding seat ( 7 , 7 ′) to be tilted about a first axis of rotation ( 8 , 8 ′) between a folded up position and a folded down position, wherein the sitting portion ( 10 , 10 ′) projects backwards, away from the rear of the backrest ( 5 , 5 ′), the backrest ( 5 , 5 ′) is mounted on the frame ( 2 , 2 ′) such that the backrest ( 5 , 5 ′) is tiltable about a second axis of rotation ( 6 , 6 ′) between a rear position and a front position considered in a longitudinal direction of the passenger seat ( 1 , 1 ′), the folding seat ( 7 , 7 ′) has a first eccentric portion ( 11 , 11 ′), which is eccentric relative to the first axis of rotation ( 8 , 8 ′), the frame ( 2 , 2 ′) has a second eccentric portion ( 12 , 12 ′), which is eccentric relative to the second axis of rotation ( 6 , 6 ′), wherein the passenger seat ( 1 , 1 ′) comprises a rod ( 15 , 15 ′), whose end portions ( 16 , 18 ; 16 ′, 18 ′) are connected to the first eccentric portion ( 11 , 11 ′) and the second eccentric portion ( 12 , 12 ′) respectively in such that first eccentric portion ( 11 , 11 ′) rotates on rod ( 15 , 15 ′) at a third axis of rotation ( 17 , 17 ′) as the folding seat ( 7 , 7 ′) is lowered to its folded down position, and the rod ( 15 , 15 ′) is rotatable about a fourth axis of rotation ( 19 , 19 ′) and that the folding seat ( 7 , 7 ′) is movable from the folded up position to the folded down position when the backrest ( 5 , 5 ′) is moved from the rear position to the front position and vice versa.