Fold up or drop down rear seat incorporating a seatback supported rear facing latch for slidably engaging an elongated striker

摘要

A rear row vehicle seat in which a pair of spaced apart and fixed supports are mounted upon a floor of a vehicle. A seat bottom exhibits a pair of side plates pivotally secured between said fixed supports. A seat back is pivotally mounted at its side ends to axially aligning locations of the side plates, offset from a pivot axis established between the seat bottom and the fixed supports, and such that upward pivoting of the seat bottom causes a combined pivotal and vertically induced displacement of the seatback. A latch is mounted to a rear facing location of the seatback and an elongated striker bar is mounted to a structurally supported and elevated location of the vehicle. The striker bar exhibits a combined arcuate and vertically extending profile for engaging the latch while accommodating vertical sliding of the seatback.

主权项

1. A rear row vehicle seat, comprising:
a pair of spaced apart and fixed supports mounted upon a floor of a vehicle; a seat bottom exhibiting a pair of side plates pivotally secured between said fixed supports; a seat back having spaced apart and downwardly extending sides which are pivotally mounted to axially aligning locations of said side plates offset from a pivot axis established between said seat bottom and said fixed supports and such that upward pivoting of said seat bottom causes a combined pivotal and vertically induced displacement of the seatback; a latch mounted to a rear facing location of the seatback; an elongated striker bar mounted to a structurally supported and elevated location of the vehicle, said striker bar exhibiting a combined arcuate and vertically extending profile for engaging said latch while accommodating vertical sliding of the seatback; said latch further having: a modified “L” shaped mounting plate with a first angled side mounted to an intermediate bracket support in turn secured to the seatback, a second angled side exhibiting an inward profiled recess defined by a plurality of interconnecting sides for receiving said striker bar in an engaged position; a hook pivotally mounted to a first location of said second angled side, said hook exhibiting configured edge surfaces which selectively overlap said recess profile of said mounting plate in a capture position of said striker, said hook further exhibiting an extending ledge; a cam lever pivotally mounting to a second location of said second angled side and exhibiting a pair of edge surfaces which abut said ledge in a first location; and a spring interconnecting projecting locations of said hook and cam lever such that, upon pivotal displacement of said cam lever in a direction away from said hook, said hook is caused to rotate out of contact with said recess profile and said seat back to disengage from said striker.