Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha

Mineki Tanaka

Masamitsu Iwatani

Yoshiyuki Miura

Yasuo Suga

Takafumi Hijikata

Tadashi Takenoshita

With respect to a rotating seat for a vehicle, for example, for the elderly or the handicapped, the known art requires two operations of moving a seat body forward and rotating it to a door opening, and is thus poor in usability. Further, if the seat is positioned to the front such that the seat can be rotated at that position, the space close to occupant's feet is sacrificed. It is, accordingly, an object of the present invention to provide a rotating vehicle seat having excellent usability without sacrificing the space close to occupant's feet. A rotating vehicle seat of the present invention includes a rotating support base for rotatably supporting a seat body a longitudinal support base for supporting and moving the rotating support base in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle, and a coupling arrangement means disposed between the seat body and the longitudinal support base for coupling the rotational movement and the longitudinal movement of the seat body.

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Kariya, Japan

Mineki Tanaka