Headrest adjusting arrangement, particularly in a motor vehicle

• US 4,834,456 A
• Filed: 12/11/1987
• Issued: 05/30/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Hallstadt (Brose), Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Maier, Ulrich, Rampel, Hans, Barros, Manuel, Dinkel, Emil, Klink, Josef
• Primary Examiner(s): McCall, James T.
• Application Number:
  US07/131,505
• Time in Patent Office: 536 Days
• Field of Search: 297/403, 297/408, 74/427
• US Class Current: 297/403
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/874 movable to an inoperative or stowed position B60N2/832, B60N2/856 take precedence

Abstract

A rear headrest adjusting arrangement in a motor vehicle has a headrest pivot bearing unit that is fixed at the seat and at which two head pad holding devices are disposed that are spaced away from one another in the direction of the pivotal axis. A pivot bearing shaft is provided that has two connecting parts for the holding devices, the connecting parts being spaced away from one another and being connected with the pivot bearing shaft in a torsionally fixed way. A driving motor is provided adjacent to the pivot bearing shaft, the driving motor having a motor shaft that with respect to its axis is parallel to the pivot bearing shaft and having a gearbox that connects the motor shaft with the pivot bearing shaft. This provides the possibility of a motor-driven headrest adjusting arrangement with little installation space for the pivot bearing unit.

Claims

1. A headrest adjusting arrangement, particularly of a rear headrest in a motor vehicle, having a headrest pivot bearing unit that is fixed at the seat and two head pad holding devices disposed at said headrest pivot bearing unit that are spaced away from one another in the direction of the pivotal axis, wherein a pivot bearing shaft is provided having two connecting parts for the holding devices that are spaced from one another and, in a torsionally fixed way, are connected with the pivot bearing shaft, wherein adjacent to said pivot bearing shaft, a driving motor is provided having a motor shaft that with respect to its axis is parallel to the pivot bearing shaft, and wherein a gearbox transmission is provided that connects the motor shaft with the pivot bearing shaft,

and wherein the gearbox transmission includes:

a motor worm connected to and rotatable with the motor shaft,

a worm wheel element connected to and rotatable with the pivot bearing shaft,

and a connecting gear shaft which has a first worm segment drivingly engaged with the motor worm and a second worm segment drivingly engaged with the worm wheel element.

2. A rear headrest adjusting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the worm wheel element is developed in the shape of a sector.

3. A rear headrest adjusting arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the pivot bearing shaft has a non-circular cross-section, preferably without rotational symmetry.

4. A rear headrest adjusting arrangement according to claim 3, wherein the pivot bearing shaft exhibits a star-shaped cross-section with a flattening on one side.

5. A headrest adjusting arrangement, particularly of a rear headrest in a motor vehicle, having a headrest pivot bearing unit that is fixed at the seat and two head pad holding devices disposed at said headrest pivot bearing unit that are spaced away from one another in the direction of the pivotal axis, wherein a pivot bearing shaft is provided having two connecting parts for the holding devices that are spaced from one another and, in a torsionally fixed way, are connected with the pivot bearing shaft, wherein adjacent to said pivot bearing shaft, a driving motor is provided having a motor shaft that with respect to its axis is parallel to the pivot bearing shaft, and wherein a gearbox transmission is provided that connects the motor shaft with the pivot bearing shaft,

and wherein the pivot bearing shaft, at least on one end, is pivotally disposed in a bearing bush, that, in turn, is inserted into a bearing opening of a bearing plate, said bearing plate having a bearing bush insertion opening that leads into the bearing opening in a direction that is essentially perpendicular with respect to the pivot shaft axis.

6. A rear headrest adjusting arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the bearing bush has a circular section that is adapted to the circular bearing opening and has flattened areas that are opposite one another, the distance of said flattened areas from one another corresponding essentially to the width of the insertion opening.

7. A rear headrest adjusting arrangement according to claim 5, wherein a pivot bearing housing is provided essentially in the shape of a hoop that is oblong in the direction of the pivot bearing shaft and the ends of which are bent in the same direction for forming the bearing plates.

8. A rear headrest adjusting arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the hoop is provided with at least one laterally projecting fastening tab for the gearbox carrying the driving motor.

9. A rear headrest adjusting arrangement according to claim 6, wherein a pivot bearing housing is provided essentially in the shape of a hoop that is oblong in the direction of the pivot bearing shaft and the ends of which are bent in the same direction for forming the bearing plates.