Adient Luxembourg Holding S.a.r.l.

Adient US LLC

Joachim Kaemmerer

Christian Wolf

Ralph Recktenwald

Holger Kunz

A vehicle seat having a seat part, a backrest, a kinematics mechanism for transferring the vehicle seat from a use position to a not-in-use position, and back again, and a locking device to lock the kinematics mechanism in the use position. When the locking device is unlocked, the vehicle seat is transferred out of the use position into an access position and the kinematics mechanism is coupled to a drive device by a coupling device. The coupling device has an unlocking swing arm for at least indirectly unlocking the locking device. When in the use position of the vehicle seat, activation of the drive device first unlocks the swing arm to pivot, so that the locking device is unlocked, and it is only following the pivoting movement of the unlocking swing arm that the kinematics mechanism is driven by the drive device to transfer the vehicle seat into the not-in-use position.

Vehicle seat

A vehicle seat (), transferable from a usage position for transporting persons to a non-usage position, includes a seat cushion () having a seat cushion support (), a backrest (), a vehicle connectable base () and a rocker (), which is pivotably connected by a first joint (I) to the base or to a component () fixed to the base and is pivotably connected by a second joint (II) to the seat cushion support. A rear foot () is pivotably connected by a third joint (III) to the base or to a component fixed to the base. Pivoting motion of the rear foot about the third joint is lockable. The rear foot is pivotably connected by a fourth joint (IV) to the backrest. A fifth joint (V) connects the backrest to the seat cushion support. At least one of the joints (I, II, III, IV, V) is a fitting ().

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Kaiserslautern, Germany

Joachim Kaemmerer