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US 5,328,244 AGranted
Headrest device
AssigneeTachi-S Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasao Ishihara, Tetsuo Saito, Atsushi Inoue
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Abstract
A headrest device as applied to a haigh back seat, wherein a headrest body is formed independently of a seat back of the seat, and wherein a first engagement element of the headrest body is engaged with a second engagement element of the seat back, to thereby secure such separate headrest body to the seat back. This arrangement allows improvement in design, coloring and appearance for each of headrest and seat back in the high back seat.
Claims6
A headrest device, which is equipped at an upper end part of a seat back of a high back seat and disposed on a frontal surface thereof, comprising:
- a headrest body formed independently of said seat back;
- a first engagement means provided at one of said seat back and headrest body, said first engagement means being formed by a bracket fixed to a headrest frame of said headrest body and including an upper inverted U-shaped hook-like male engagement section formed integrally with an upper end part of said bracket and a lower engagement means;
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- a second engagement means positioned on another of said seat back and headrest body, said second engagement means including an upper U-shaped wire forming a male engagement means, to which upper U-shaped wire, said inverted U-shaped hook-like male engagement section of said first engagement means is to be hookingly engaged, and a lower engagement means which is securely engaged with said lower engagement means of said first engagement means;
- wherein one of said two lower engagement means respectively of said first and second engagement means comprises a pair of spaced-apart sleeves each including a notched groove formed therein, in which notched groove, a snap spring is resiliently fitted, while the other of said two lower engagement means comprises a pair of stoppers, each engageable into the respective said pair of spaced apart sleeves and securely engaged thereto by said snap spring,
- wherein said headrest body is assembled with said seat back by causing said inverted U-shaped hook-like male engagement section of said first engagement means to be hookingly engaged with said upper U-shaped wire, and causing said lower engagement means of said first engagement means to be securely engaged with said lower engagement means of said second engagement means, respectively.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.