Patent ID: 9428089
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: B60N

Claim Text:
1. A headrest comprising: a head support; at least one support rod extending along a rod axis on an automobile seat, carrying the head support, having an end, and formed with a laterally open notch; a guide attachable to the automobile seat and having a guide passage in which the rod end is movable; a flexible metal or plastic latch wire radially movable on the rod and detachably engageable with the notch, the latch wire being engaged with the notch in a latching position and disengaged from the notch in a release position; an actuating device movable between a non-actuated position and an actuated position for displacing the latch wire between the latching position and the release position, the latch wire being at least partially displaceable linearly to transmit compression forces for shifting the latch wire into the release position on movement of the actuating device into the actuated position; at least one guide surface on the guide for deflection of the latch wire radially.