Flip seat arrangement having upper seat back pivot

US6837531B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Kenneth S Mack · Lapeer, US
• Thomas S. Moore · Oxford, US
• Russell C Fielding · Clarkston, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 23, 2003
• Grant date: Jan 4, 2005
• Expiry date: Jul 23, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60P3/423
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A rear seat assembly of a passenger cabin of a pick-up truck includes a rear seat cushion and a rear seat back, each rotatable such that a bottom surface of the rotated rear seat back can rest upon a rear end of the rotated seat cushion to provide a storage space beneath the rotated seat back and between the rotated seat cushion and a rear wall of the passenger cabin. The cargo bed of the truck may be extended into the storage space by providing an access door thereto in a front wall of the cargo bed in communication with a corresponding opening in the rear wall of the passenger cabin.