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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066329 | Car seat head rest with built-in screen A car seat head rest, which is adapted for mounting on a car seat having two spaced apart retention slots, includes a head pillow, a display screen supported at the rear side of the head pillow, and an adjustable mounting arrangement including a length-adjustable sl... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7455363 | Device for moving headrest back and forth A device for moving headrest back and forth for automobile in which a tilt adjusting device and a back and forth movement device are united into a single device is provided. The device comprises a stay 114, a ratchet member RM, a tilt adjusting device (TAD), ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7264313 | Seat headrest An adjustable headrest for use with furniture and vehicle seats that includes novel slide mechanisms for permitting easy vertical and horizontal adjustments of the headrest relative to the seat. The headrest also includes wing-like side support members that are pivo... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7213884 | Vehicle seat with headrest comprising nuchal and lateral supports A vehicle seat has a headrest with a center pad and two side pads that are laterally hinged to the center pad. The side pads are swivellable forward into a resting position and back into a supporting position. The center pad has a variable pad hardness, with a firme... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7201448 | Headrest support assembly A headrest support assembly for a seat apparatus capable of positioning the headrest in a variety of positions, including a position that provides headrest support to raise the head while the seat is in a reclined position. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7111901 | Headrest for automotive vehicle seats A headrest for a motor vehicle seat is crash active in that it has a mechanism for automatically bringing the head-engaging member toward the head of the passenger in the case of a crash. This mechanism includes a slide guided on a pair of cylindrical members surrou... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7080886 | Headrest for a seat A headrest (1) for a seat (3), preferably a passenger seat, particularly an air passenger seat, includes at least one tilt adjusting device (27) and one height adjustment device (12) for adjusting the tilt or the height of the headrest ( | 07/25/2006 |
| 7032974 | Headrest assembly Certain exemplary embodiments provide an apparatus comprising: a headrest assembly adapted to non-destructively attach to a pair of uprights of a wheelchair. Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising: non-destructively removably attaching a headrest ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6938958 | Adjustable head support A toddler head support having a unitary support member which includes a padded central support portion and padded side support portions having rounded ends. The central support portion includes a support panel which provides a support base for a wire that forms loop... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6666516 | Neck rest for a seat for automobiles An automobile-seat headrest has a fixed support enclosed by a fixed pad and two rods which are connected to the support and which are received in the headrest bushes in a seat backrest, a second support for a displaceable pad being displaceably resting in... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6478377 | Juvenile safety car seat A juvenile safety car seat has a seat portion and a backrest portion forming a support and defining a support space for supporting a child. A pair of side guards are outwardly movably provided on left and right sides of the backrest portion for protecting... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6475908 | Dual metal gate process: metals and their silicides Methods for forming dual-metal gate CMOS transistors are described. An NMOS and a PMOS active area of a semiconductor substrate are separated by isolation regions. A metal layer is deposited over a gate dielectric layer in each active area. Silicon ions a... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6139106 | Headrest for dental use The present device is a small "U"-shaped, vinyl covered, foam filled pillow having two side mounted, hinged internal support arms which would adjust left and right with the use of a lock/unlock button. A follower arm is attached between the two support ar... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6022078 | Headrest of a seat with adjustable positioning rods A headrest includes an L-shaped board and a casing, both of which pivotally clamp a shaft extending transversely between the board and the casing. Two tubular members are movably mounted on the shaft and each has a tube, which extends through the bottom o... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5791735 | Headrest assembly with user actuacted pivotal support assembly A headrest 10! suitable for attachment to a wheelchair seating system, comprising: a cushioned backpad 12!, a pair of laterally spaced apart cushioned sidepads 14!, and a mounting assembly 20! located substantially to the rear of said headrest 1... | 08/11/1998 |
| 4265482 | Head-rest adjusting device A device for forwardly and backwardly adjusting a head-rest according to the invention comprises a base plate fixed to stays extending above a back of a seat for an automobile and provided at its ends with lower rails formed with anchoring apertures, a sl... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4191422 | Adjustable headrest An adjustable headrest for a vehicle seat comprises a stationary guide rail, a slide rail slidable along the guide rail forwardly and backwardly of the seat among several adjusting positions, and means locking the slide rail in one of the adjusting positi... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4154478 | Portable headrest A portable headrest for use in conjunction with the seats of public transportation vehicles. The headrest comprises a pair of padded supports which are secured to a chair back by means of a belt or a pair of hangers. The pair of supports are spaced apart ... | 05/15/1979 |