Patent ID: 7631932
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A vehicle headrest comprising: a vehicle-mounted support having a flat upright support face; a cushion; guides mounting the cushion on the support for displacement forward from a rear position in a vehicle travel direction to a front position and rearward opposite to the travel direction from the front position to the rear position; a lever pivoted in the cushion at a horizontal pivot axis generally parallel to the support face and fixed in the cushion, the lever having a first arm having an outer end rearwardly engageable with, bearing on, but not coupled to the support and a second arm extending at an angle of less than 180° to the first arm and having an outer end; and a piston-cylinder unit having one end pivoted on the cushion and an opposite end pivoted on the outer end of the second arm of the lever, the unit being expansible for pivoting the lever, pressing the first arm outer end rearwardly against the support, and displacing the cushion forward into the front position with sliding of the first arm outer end on the support face.