Appeal No. 99-0630 Page 2
Application No. 08/633,400
(see page 3 in the final rejection, Paper No. 7). Claim 2 2
was canceled in Paper No. 6, filed April 28, 1997.
We REVERSE.
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a motor vehicle
folding passenger seat assembly having an integral child seat.
As shown in Figure 1, the seat assembly includes a backrest
portion (16) pivotally attached to a seat portion (14) by a
hinge (24). As illustrated in Figure 5, the hinge (24) has a
top bracket arm (26) attached to the backrest portion (16) and
a bottom bracket arm (30) pivotally attached to the top
bracket arm by a hinge pin (32) and fixedly attached to either
the vehicle floor (10) or the seat portion (14). The seat
assembly further includes a seat latch (36), shown in Figures
5 and 6, for selectively locking the backrest portion (16) of
the seat assembly in a generally vertical use position or
2Claims 7 through 15 are included in the appendix to the
appellants' brief, but they are not involved in this appeal.
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