Headrest

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10086729-B2
Application number	US-201715429230-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2017
Priority date	Apr 11, 2016
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

A headrest for a vehicle child restraint is adapted to be mounted to a seat back and configured to support the head of a child seated in the vehicle child restraint. The headrest includes first and second side wings arranged to lie in laterally spaced-apart relation to one another.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An occupant restraint for a mobile vehicle, the restraint comprising
a headrest including a first side wing, a second side wing arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the first side wing, and a back plate arranged to extend between the first and second side wings and cooperate with the first and second side wings to define a head- receiving space therebetween,
a first chin-support pad mounted on the first side wing for pivotable movement about a positively sloping inclined first pad pivot axis relative to the back plate, toward the second side wing from a retracted position alongside the first side wing to an extended and inclined position away from the first side wing to provide support for a first side of a chin of an occupant of the occupant restraint, and
a second chin-support pad mounted on the second side wing for pivotable movement about a positively sloping inclined second pad pivot axis relative to the back plate, toward the first side wing from a retracted position alongside the second side wing to an extended and inclined position away from the second side wing to provide support for an opposite second side of a chin of the occupant of the occupant restraint.

2. The restraint of claim 1 , further comprising a first pad mover associated with the first side wing and configured to move the first chin-support pad about the positively sloping inclined first pad pivot axis from the retracted position to the extended and inclined position and a second pad mover associated with the second side wing and configured to move the second chin-support pad about the positively sloping inclined second pad pivot axis from the retracted position to the extended and inclined position.

3. The restraint of claim 2 , wherein the positively sloping inclined first and second pad pivot axes are non-parallel.

4. The restraint of claim 2 , wherein the first pad mover is configured to provide means for maintaining the first chin-support pad in the extended and inclined position until a pad-retraction force in excess of a predetermined force is applied to the first chin-support pad by a moving head of an occupant of the occupant restraint so that application of such a pad- retraction force causes the first chin-support pad to pivot about the positively sloping inclined first pad pivot axis toward the retracted position.

5. The restraint of claim 4 , wherein the second pad mover is configured to provide means for maintaining the second chin-support pad in the extended and inclined position until a pad-retraction force in excess of a predetermined force is applied to the second chin-support pad by a moving head of an occupant of the occupant restraint so that application of such a pad-retraction force causes the second chin-support pad to pivot about the positively sloping inclined second pad pivot axis toward the retracted position.

6. The restraint of claim 2 , wherein the first pad mover is configured to provide means for establishing a series of different discrete angular intermediate positions of the first chin-support pad during pivoting movement of the first chin-support pad about the positively sloping inclined first pad pivot axis from the retracted position to the extended and inclined position.

7. The restraint of claim 6 , wherein the second pad mover is configured to provide means for establishing a series of different discrete angular intermediate positions of the second chin-support pad during pivoting movement of the second chin-support pad about the positively sloping inclined second pad pivot axis from the retracted position to the extended and inclined position.

8. The restraint of claim 1 , further comprising a first upper pad coupled to a portion of the first side wing and arranged to lie above and in spaced-apart relation to the underlying first chin-support pad to locate the positively sloping first pad pivot axis therebetween.

9. An occupant restraint for a mobile vehicle, the restraint comprising
a headrest including a first side wing, a second side wing arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the first side wing, and a back plate arranged to extend between the first and second side wings and cooperate with the first and second side wings to define a head- receiving space therebetween,
a first chin-support pad mounted on the first side wing for pivotable movement about a positively sloping inclined first pad pivot axis toward the second side wing from a retracted position alongside the first side wing to an extended and inclined position away from the first side wing to provide support for a first side of a chin of an occupant of the occupant restraint, and
a second chin-support pad mounted on the second side wing for pivotable movement about a positively sloping inclined second pad pivot axis toward the first side wing from a retracted position alongside the second side wing to an extended and inclined position away from the first side wing to provide support for an opposite second side of a chin of the occupant of the occupant restraint,
further comprising a first upper pad coupled to a portion of the first side wing and arranged to lie above and in spaced-apart relation to the underlying first chin-support pad to locate the positively sloping first pad pivot axis therebetween,
wherein the first chin-support pad has a rear portion located adjacent to the back plate along a rearward proximal edge of the portion of the first side wing and a front portion arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the back plate along the forward distal edge of the first side wing and the front portion has a vertical height that is greater than a vertical height of the rear portion.

10. The restraint of claim 9 , wherein the first upper pad has a rear portion located adjacent to the back plate along the rearward proximal edge of the portion of the first side wing and a front portion arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the back plate along the forward distal edge of the portion of the first side wing and the rear portion has a vertical height that is greater than a vertical height of the front portion.

11. The restraint of claim 9 , wherein the second chin-support pad has a rear portion located adjacent to the back plate along a rearward proximal edge of a portion of the second side wing and a front portion arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the back plate along the forward distal edge of the portion of the second side wing and the front portion has a vertical height that is greater than a vertical height of the rear portion.

12. The restraint of claim 11 , wherein the first upper pad has a rear portion located adjacent to the back plate along the rearward proximal edge of the portion of the first side wing and a front portion arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the back plate along the forward distal edge of the portion of the first side wing and the rear portion has a vertical height that is greater than a vertical height of the front portion and wherein the second upper pad has a rear portion located adjacent to the back plate along the rearward proximal edge of the portion of the second side wing and a front portion arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the back plate along the forward distal edge of the portion of the second side wing and the rear portion has a vertical height that is greater than a vertical height of the front portion.

13. A headrest comprising
a back plate,
a pair of side wings that project from the back plate and are spaced apart to accommodate a person's head between generally opposed inside faces of the side wings,
opposed chin-support pads mounted to the respective side wings for movem

Assignees

• Dorel Juvenile Group Inc

Inventors

• Tat Kim

Classifications

• B60N2/806

  movable or adjustable · CPC title

• B60N2/885 Primary

  provided with side-rests · CPC title