Head rest, particularly for a motor vehicle seat

• US 6,883,870 B2
• Filed: 03/20/2002
• Issued: 04/26/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Security Vision Concept
• Original Assignee: Security Vision Concept
• Inventors: Jost, Gilbert
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): EDELL, JOSEPH F
• Application Number:
  US10/469,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20040113479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,133 Days
• Field of Search: 297/217.3, 297/408, 297/391
• US Class Current: 297/391
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/809 vertically slidable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/838 Tiltable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/85 with continuous positioning
• 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 2011/0017 Head-rests

Abstract

The invention relates to a headrest, particularly for a motor vehicle seat, comprising a cushion made from synthetic foam which houses an integrated support that can be used to fix two parallel anchor rods to the seat. According to the invention, the anchor rods are fitted with threaded shafts that extend at a right angle from the upper end of said rods. The threaded shafts are each screwed into one end of a housing body in the form of a cylindrical sleeve having a suitable internal threading. Tightening locknuts are used to lock the anchor rods in position on the cylindrical sleeve. Said cylindrical sleeve is fixed to a locking lug, which is disposed on the integrated support, by means of a stirrup piece which is associated with a screw-nut type tightening system.

Claims

1. A headrest, in particular for a motor vehicle seat, comprising:

a cushion (2);

an integrated support (12) enclosed by said cushion (2);

two parallel anchor rods (6) for fitting said integrated support (12) onto a receiving seat (7);

wherein each of said anchor rods (6) has a threaded shaft (18) extending at a right angle from an upper end thereof and rigidly secured to said upper end;

a rotatable, complementary threaded housing sleeve (19) threadably attached to each of said rigidly secured threaded shafts (18), whererby rotation of the housing sleeve (19) causes the threaded shafts (18) engaged thereby to move laterally to provide an adjustment for adjusting the lateral distance between said anchor rods (6);

a lock (22) for locking the anchor rods (6) in a set position on the sleeve (19) to thereby maintain a set lateral distance between both anchor rods (6); and

securing means (24, 25, 26) for securing said housing sleeve (19) onto the integrated support (12).

2. The headrest as recited in claim 1,

wherein said threading of said housing sleeve (19) is an inner threading adapted to conform with an outer threading on each of said threaded shafts (18), and,

said lock (22) comprises locknuts on each of said threaded shafts (18) adapted to abut said housing sleeve (19) so as to secure the position of said anchor rods (6).

3. The headrest as recited in claim 1,

wherein the housing sleeve (19) has a substantially cylindrical shape, the sleeve (19) being housed in the base of an attached flat, U-shaped stirrup piece (24), the stirrup piece (24) abutting a locking lug (30) situated on the integrated support (12) and affixed to the locking lug (30) via a screw-nut tightening system (25, 26).

4. The headrest as recited in claim 3,

wherein the integrated support (12) has a seat (28) adapted to receive the sleeve (19) and the threaded shafts (18) that extend at right angles from the upper ends of the anchor rods (6) wherein said seat (28) ends at the front face of the support (12) and is positioned just below the locking lug (30) of the integrated support (12), and wherein the seat (28) has lower horizontally extending elongated openings (29) for passage of the anchor rods (6), the openings (29) being adapted to receive anchor rods (6) at different spaced distances.

5. The headrest as recited in claim 4,

wherein the seat (28) of the support (12) has an opening (35) situated below the locking lug (30) in order to facilitate the positioning of the U-shaped stirrup piece (24).

6. The headrest as recited in claim 1,

wherein the headrest has attached adapter sleeves (37), capable of compensating for the difference between the outer diameter of the anchor rods (6) and the inner diameter of a housing sleeve (20) installed in the upper portion of the receiving seat (7), the adapter sleeves (37) having an upper flange (38) allowing the adapter sleeves (37) to be held on the housing sleeves (20).

7. The headrest as recited in claim 1,

wherein the headrest has a monitor (8) embedded in a rear face of the headrest, the monitor (8) being moveably clamped into a casing (14) which is embedded in the rear face and fixed on the integrated support (12).

8. The headrest as recited in claim 7,

wherein the casing (14) is embedded in a housing (4′

) situated at the rear face of cushion (2), the housing (4′

) being delimited by a rigid frame (10) whose width essentially corresponds to the thickness of the casing (14) and along the inner rim of which the integrated support comes to rest, the base of the casing (14) being fixed to the integrated support (12) via locking screws (15) and the front face of the casing (14) being equipped with an oversize peripheral flange (16) adapted to rest against the outer rim of the rigid frame (10).

9. The headrest as recited in claim 8,

wherein the headrest cushion (2) is molded onto the rigid frame (10).

10. The headrest as recited in claim 7,

wherein the interior of said headrest anchor rods (6) are hollow, and power supply cables (40) of the monitor (8) pass through the interior of at least one of said anchor rods.

11. A headrest, in particular for a motor vehicle seat, comprising:

a cushion (2);

an integrated support (12) enclosed by said cushion (2);

two parallel anchor rods (6) attached to said integrated support for fitting said integrated support (12) onto a receiving seat (7);

wherein each of said anchor rods (6) has a threaded shaft (18) extending at a right angle from an upper end thereof and rigidly secured to said upper end; and

a rotatable, complementary threaded housing sleeve (19) threadably attached to each of said rigidly secured threaded shafts (18), whereby rotation of the housing sleeve (19) causes the threaded shafts (18) engaged thereby to move laterally to provide an adjustment for adjusting the lateral distance between said anchor rods (6).