Video screen integrated in a head rest

• US 6,698,832 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2002
• Issued: 03/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adient US, LLC (Adient plc)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Boudinot, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Nelson, Jr., Milton
• Application Number:
  US10/156,723
• Publication Number:
  US 20030025367A1
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 297/440.1, 297/397, 297/217.4, 297/217.3, 297/217.1, 297/408, 297/391
• US Class Current: 297/217.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/809 vertically slidable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/879 with additional features not related to head-rest positioning, e.g. heating or cooling devices or loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0015 Back-rests
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0017 Head-rests
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0045 with visible part, e.g. flush mounted
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0085 with adjustment by rotation in their operational position

Abstract

A vehicle seat with a head rest detachably fastenable at a backrest of the seat and with an integrated video screen, for which the head rest has a storing space. In order to obtain an improved possibility to mount the seat using simple constructive techniques and in order to allow a high security for the passengers of the vehicle in its mounted state, the video screen is fastened in the storing space in a form-locking and/or force-locking manner between the head rest and the backrest. In particular in a first embodiment the video screen is fastened on a support piece of the backrest, which is provided with sleeves for supporting rods of the head rest and with a plug-in contact for the video screen.

Claims

1. Vehicle seat, comprising a back rest detachably fastened to a head rest and an integrated display device, the head rest having a retaining space for said display device, wherein the display device, when mounted, is fitted into the retaining space between the head rest and the back rest by at least one of contact connection, and force connection.

2. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the display device, when mounted, is fitted into the retaining space between the head rest and the back rest by contact connection.

3. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the display device, when mounted, is fitted into the retaining space between the head rest and the back rest by force connection.

4. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein a display of the display device is formed as a flat display.

5. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the retaining space is provided as a recess within the head rest comprising the display device in close contact when mounted to a viewer of the display device as well as downwardly in direction of the back rest.

6. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein at least one cover can be fixed onto a display of the display device.

7. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, further comprising mounting posts for connecting the head rest with the back rest which are fixed to a bottom surface of the head rest.

8. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein fixing sleeves for connecting the back rest with the head rest are positioned in the back rest.

9. Vehicle seat according to claim 8, wherein a support portion for the display device forms a bridge between the fixing sleeves.

10. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the display device comprises at least one bottom portion from which a display is projecting in a perpendicular direction.

11. Vehicle seat according to claim 10, wherein a female connectors, connected to connecting lines for connection with a corresponding male connector of the display device disposed in the bottom portion of the display devices, is integrated into the backrest.

12. Vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein the connecting lines of the female connector are disposed within the back rest.

13. Vehicle seat according to claim 10, wherein an outline of the bottom portion is larger than an outline of the display.

14. Vehicle seat according to claim 10, wherein the outline of the bottom portion substantially corresponds to an outline of support portion in the upper part of the back rest.

15. Vehicle seat according to claim 10, wherein the outline of the bottom portion substantially corresponds to the outline of a bottom surface of the head rest.

16. Vehicle seat according to claim 10, wherein passage apertures for one or more mounting post(s) of the head rest are positioned in the bottom portion.

17. Vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein a support portion for the display device is positioned in the back rest.

18. Vehicle seat according to claim 17, wherein the display device comprises at least one bottom portion from which a display is projecting in a perpendicular direction.

19. Vehicle seat according to claim 18, wherein the display of the display device is formed as a flat display.

20. Vehicle seat according to claim 19, wherein the flat display is an LCD display.

21. Vehicle seat according to claim 18, wherein an outline of the bottom portion is larger than an outline of the display.

22. Vehicle seat according to claim 21, wherein the outline of the bottom portion is located beneath the entire outline of the display.

23. Vehicle seat according to claim 22, wherein the outline of the bottom portion substantially corresponds to an outline of a support portion in the upper part of the back rest.

24. Vehicle seat according to claim 23, wherein a female connector, connected to connecting lines for connection with a corresponding male connector of the display device, disposed in the bottom portion of the display device, is integrated into the back rest.

25. Vehicle seat according to claim 23, wherein the outline of the bottom portion substantially corresponds to the outline of a bottom surface of the head rest.

26. Vehicle seat according to claim 25, further comprising mounting posts for connecting the head rest with the back rest which are fixed to the bottom surface of the head rest.

27. Vehicle seat according to claim 26, wherein fixing sleeves for connecting the back rest with the head rest are positioned in the back rest.

28. Vehicle seat according to claim 27, wherein the support portion in the upper part of the back rest forms a bridge between the fixing sleeves.