Headrest with loudspeaker for vehicle seat
AssigneeAsk Industries Societa' Per Azioni
InventorsMaurizio SERVADIO, Tiziano NILI
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Abstract
A headrest suitable for being fastened to a vehicle seat having: an upper support portion, a reinforcing frame connected to the upper support portion for fastening the upper support portion to the vehicle seat, and an array of microphones comprising microphones disposed inside seats obtained in the headrest, in such a way that the microphones can be used to capture the sounds from the user sitting on the seat where the headrest is connected, as well as environmental microphones to capture the environmental noise perceived around the headrest.
Claims14
Headrest suitable for being fastened to a vehicle seat, comprising:
- a front half-body against which the head of a user is intended to rest, said front half-body having a concavity;
- a back half-body connected to the front half-body, said back half-body having a concavity that faces the concavity of the front half-body, in such a way that the two half-bodies form a chamber, said back half-body comprising a back wall with a through hole having an edge that defines an annular seat;
- a reinforcing frame connected to at least one of the two half bodies and intended to be fixed to the vehicle seat;
- a loudspeaker of subwoofer type to operate at low frequencies, said loudspeaker having at least one membrane, said loudspeaker being disposed in the annular seat of the back half-body in such a way to form a front chamber defined by the front half-body, by the back half-body and by the membrane of the loudspeaker;
- a cover disposed behind the back half-body in such a way to cover said loudspeaker at least partially and form a back chamber defined by the cover, by the back wall of the back half-body and by the membrane of the loudspeaker;
- said front chamber and said back chamber acting as speaker for the loudspeaker, in such a way that the loudspeaker can operate as subwoofer at low frequencies.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.