Latchable headrest

US9114744B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GRAMMER AG · DE

Inventors

• Reinhold Groenninger · Maxhütte-Haidhof, DE
• Thomas Wallinger · Bodenwöhr, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 2, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 25, 2015
• Expiry date: May 2, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/818
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle headrest has at least one generally vertical support rod formed with a vertical row of horizontally open notches, a body vertically slidable along the rod, and a latch element shiftable in the body between a first position engaged in one of the notches and impeding sliding of the body along the rod, a second position offset in one direction from the rod, and a third position offset in another direction from the rod. The latch element travels in a first straight line from the first position to the second position and in a second straight line nonparallel to the first straight line from the first position to the third position.