US 7,731,280 B2Granted

Active headrest mechanism for vehicle seat

AssigneesTs Tech Co., Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKenichi Niitsuma, Hirooki Negishi, Jinichi Tanabe, Koji Uno, Tatsuya Terauchi, Tomoki Matsumoto, Koji Sano

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Abstract

A vehicle seat of the invention includes: a rectangular-shaped seat back frame (5) having a pair of side frames (6); a plurality of seat springs (34A, 34B) disposed between the side frames; a single plate-shaped flexible cushion plate (31) attached to the seat springs; a seat cushion (9) provided on the front side of the cushion plate; link mechanisms (15, 35) provided near the side frames; and a headrest (4) coupled to the link mechanisms (15). Both ends of the seat spring (34B) are coupled to the link mechanisms. When the seat spring (34B) is moved rearward, the headrest is moved forward. Both sides of each of the remaining seat springs (34A) are mounted to the side frames.

Claims5

Dependent claims

An active headrest mechanism for a vehicle seat comprising:

a seat back frame having a first side frame and a second side frame;
a first seat spring and a second seat spring disposed between the first and second side frames;
a single plate-shaped flexible cushion plate attached to the seat springs;
a seat cushion provided on the front side of the cushion plate, for receiving resilience of the seat springs through the cushion plate;
a first link mechanism and a second link mechanism respectively provided near the first and second side frames;
and
a headrest coupled to the first and second link mechanisms,
wherein the first seat spring connects to both the first and second link mechanisms, whereby when the first seat spring is moved rearward by a collision load acting on the seat cushion, the headrest is moved forward, and
wherein the second seat spring connects to both the first and second side frames.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.