Removable motor vehicles rear seat

US5662367A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Ina Rastetter · Althengstett, DE
• Walter Schmid · Sindelfingen, DE
• Werner Hauser · Calw, DE
• Rolf Mitschelen · Tauberbischofsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 5, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 2, 1997
• Expiry date: Sep 5, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2022/207
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A removable rear seat for motor vehicles, in particular for Estate cars with a variable-volume loading space, having a rigid seat bench and a seat-bench substructure for fixing the seat height. The substructure is fixed on the floor of the vehicle body via releasable anchorage locations. In order to provide a rear seat which is manageable, easy to remove, and makes optimum use of the resulting free space after the rear seat has been removed, the seat-bench substructure is connected releasably, at its end remote from the anchorage locations, to the seat bench and is retained in its anchorage location. Thus, it can be pivoted out of a use position into a stowage position on or in the floor of the vehicle body and vice versa. At least one manually actuatable locking device locks the seat-bench substructure in its use position and determines the seat height.