Chrysler Corporation

Atoma International Corporation

Lear Seating Corporation

Dragi Jovan

Thomas J Susko

Steven A Schulte

David A Bargiel

Joseph A Severini

Shelly M Plaza

Noel P Gravenstruter

Omar D Tame

Daniel C Yee

A vehicle modular three-across seat, or, so-called, split bench seat assembly, including two wide outboard seat structures and a narrower middle seat structure. Each outboard seat structure is supported on the floor of the vehicle by four corner anchors for independent forward and aft movement. The middle seat is supported in a fixed manner by four corner support brackets extending outwardly and downwardly to mount on the adjacent two pairs of front and rear corner anchors. The modular three-seat assembly is adapted to be installed as a unit in the vehicle by securing the four corner anchors of each of the two outboard seat structures to the vehicle floor pan.

Method of vehicle seat assembly

Vehicle seat assembly

A vehicle seat comprises a seat back cushion assembly having a lower end and an upper end, and a seat cushion assembly having one end adjacent the lower end of the seat back assembly and an opposite end. A mounting structure is provided and is constructed and arranged with respect to the upper end of the seat back cushion assembly to mount the same so that the upper end does not move appreciably in a horizontal direction but can have limited vertical movement. A releasably lockable mounting assembly is constructed and arranged to be mounted on a floor of a vehicle and to be connected with the seat cushion and seat back cushion assemblies in a relationship which retains the one end of the seat cushion assembly adjacent the lower end of the seat back cushion assembly while enabling the assemblies to be selectively releasably moved between two locked positions consisting of (1) a sitting position wherein the seat cushion assembly extends generally horizontally from the one end thereof to the opposite end thereof to support a user sitting thereon and the seat back cushion assembly extends upwardly from the lower end thereof to the upper end thereof to support the back of a user sitting on the seat cushion assembly and (2) a storage position wherein the seat back cushion assembly extends generally vertically and the seat cushion assembly extends generally vertically in adjacent relation alongside the seat back cushion assembly. A cable assembly is operable remote from the releasably lockable mounting assembly to release the releasably lockable mounting assembly to permit movement thereof between the sitting and storage positions.

Seat hinge and latch assembly with bi-directional release

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Farmington Hills, MI, United States of America

Dragi Jovan