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Arako Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsutomu Maruta

Daisuke Ono

Shigeru Nakagawa

Naoki Wakasugi

A support mechanism for support of a seat cushion of a passenger seat at one side thereof on a vehicle compartment floor, which includes a side leg pivotally mounted to a support frame of the seat cushion at one side thereof to be retained in an upright position and housed in a space under the bottom of the seat cushion, a turnover spring engaged at one end thereof with the support frame of the seat cushion and at the other end thereof with the side leg for biasing the side leg toward its folding direction or set-up direction when it is turned over during pivotal movement of the side leg, a lock device for restricting pivotal movement of the side leg placed in its upright position and for retaining the side leg in its upright position; and a release lever associated with the locking device for releasing a locked condition of the side leg.

Support mechanism of vehicle seat

A rear passenger seat adapted for use in a vehicle compartment, the passenger seat having a seat cushion the front end portion of which is supported by a support leg assembly pivotally mounted on a recessed portion of the compartment floor and the rear end portion of which is locked in place by means of a lock mechanism on a deck portion of the compartment floor, wherein the support leg assembly includes a support leg pivotally mounted on the recessed portion of the compartment floor for pivotal movement in a fore-and-aft direction, a leg support member pivoted at its lower end to an upper end of the support leg and pivoted at its upper end to a support frame of the seat cushion to be folded forward at the upper end of the support leg and retainer means provided on a vertical wall between the recessed portion and deck portion of the compartment floor for releasably retaining the support leg assembly in an upright position by engagement therewith, and wherein a pneumatic spring is disposed a between the leg support member of the support leg assembly and a rear end portion of the support frame of the seat cushion to bias the leg support member in a direction for straightening the support leg assembly.

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Shimoyama-mura, Japan

Tsutomu Maruta