Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Daihatsu Motor Company, Ltd.

Kouzou Tanaka

Takeshi Yoshida

Takayasu Honda

Shunosuke Kitazume

A rear seat cushion in a motor vehicle, which is mounted to rotate forwardly into an erect position to expand the loading space in the rear portion of the vehicle compartment. A quadric rotary link mechanism is used to connect a seat cushion to a vehicle floor and includes a seat cushion side link provided on the seat cushion substantially horizontally in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a floor side link provided on the vehicle floor positioned downwardly of the forward end of the seat cushion substantially vertically in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a lower link pin-connected at opposite ends thereof to the forward end portion of the seat cushion side link and the bottom end portion of the floor side link, and an upper link pin-connected at opposite ends thereof to the rear end portion of the seat cushion side link and the top end portion of the floor side link.

Growing community of inventors

Toyonaka, Japan

Kouzou Tanaka