Headrest
AssigneesTachi-S Engineering U.S.A., Inc., Bose Corporation
InventorsYasuo Kakishima, Ravi Krishnan, Dave Hamel, Barry McLean, Seiji Kawakami
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Abstract
A headrest includes: (a) a headrest frame, (b) a speaker unit supported by the headrest frame and having a speaker box, a speaker attached to the speaker box, and a megaphone-shaped tube attached to the speaker box, (c) a cushion material, (d) a skin material having an opening, sewed into a pouch shape, and covering the headrest frame, the speaker unit, and the cushion material, and (e) a ring-shaped member securing the entire opening-side end portion of the skin material sandwiched between the ring-shaped member and the megaphone-shaped tube.
Claims19
A headrest comprising:
- (a) a headrest frame;
- (b) a speaker unit supported by the headrest frame and including a speaker box, a speaker attached to the speaker box, and a megaphone-shaped tube attached to the speaker box;
- (c) a cushion material formed by a foam injection process;
- (d) a skin material having an opening, the skin material being sewed into a pouch shape, covering the headrest frame, the speaker unit, and the cushion material, wherein the opening in the skin material is provided adjacent an opening at an end of the megaphone-shaped tube;
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- (e) a ring-shaped member securing portions of the skin material surrounding the opening in the skin material by sandwiching the portions of the skin material surrounding the opening in the skin material between the ring-shaped member and the megaphone-shaped tube, thereby forming a seal for the prevention of leakage of the cushion material during the foam injection process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.