JP3210145U - Headrest - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a headrest that has a good rear view of an automobile seat occupant and that can protect the occupant's head and cervical spine and suppress whiplash in the event of a rear-end collision or the like. A headrest 10 includes a pair of vertical support bar members 21 that are held on the left and right of an upper part of a seat back of an automobile seat, and a horizontal support bar member 22 that connects the pair of vertical support bar members 21 to each other. A stay having a U-shape, a headrest main body in which a net member 32 is stretched on a frame 31 formed of a bar, and a connecting member 40 including a bar connecting the stay and the headrest main body. [Selection] Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to a headrest used for an automobile seat, and more particularly to a headrest that has a good rear view and can reduce an impact on a head when the vehicle is collided with another automobile.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a headrest is provided on a seat back of an automobile seat for protection in the event of a collision.

  Various inventions have been proposed in which the headrest is pivotally supported so that it can be raised and lowered with respect to the upper part of the seat back as a device for preventing the headrest from obstructing the rear view of the seated person. (For example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

  Also, whipping caused by car accidents is often caused by rear-end collisions. In the case of a rear-end collision, since a great force is applied to the occupant from the rear, first, the head and the cervical vertebra move backward, and then the force is applied in the direction of bending forward. As an invention for improving the headrest for mitigating such an impact, Patent Document 3 discloses a headrest for automobile in which a support body in which a concave occipital head support portion and a pillow-like neck portion support portion are connected to each other is fixed to an inverted U-shaped stay. Is disclosed.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 4-38755 JP 2002-272554 A Registered Utility Model Publication No. 3114557

  The present invention provides a headrest that has a good rearward view of an automobile seat occupant and that can protect the occupant's head and cervical spine and suppress whiplash in the event of a rear-end collision. Objective.

  The configuration of the present invention for achieving the above object is as follows.

(1) The headrest according to claim 1 includes a pair of vertical support bar members held on the left and right of the upper part of the seat back of the automobile seat, and a horizontal support bar member that couples the pair of vertical support bar members. A stay that has an approximately U shape;
A headrest body in which a net is stretched on a frame made of bar material;
A connecting member composed of a rod connecting the state headrest body,
Consists of.

  (2) In the headrest according to claim 2, in the device according to claim 1, the frame and the connecting member of the headrest body are formed of a glass fiber material.

  (3) The headrest according to claim 3 is the device according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the mesh material is formed of a cotton material.

  It will be outlined with reference to the drawings how the present invention configured as described above works to solve the problems.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a headrest 10 according to the present invention is used by being attached to a seat back 3. The headrest body 30 that supports the head of the seated person has a net member 32 stretched over a frame 31. Therefore, when the seated person turns around and confirms the rear, or when confirming the rear through the rearview mirror, the headrest body 10 does not interfere with visual recognition. That is, the back can be confirmed through the headrest body 10 and the blind spot can be reduced as much as possible.

  Further, in the event of a rear-end collision, the net member 32 flexibly supports the seated person's head, that is, the rearward movement of the head and the cervical spine is received while absorbing the impact, so that whiplash is as much as possible. Therefore, it is possible to suppress it.

Explanatory drawing which shows the implementation state of this invention Front view of the present invention Rear view of the present invention Right side view of the present invention

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a preferred device will be outlined with reference to the drawings. The embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the following embodiments, and various forms can be adopted as long as they belong to the technical scope of the present invention.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of an automobile seat to which an automobile headrest of the present invention is attached.

  A vehicle headrest 10 according to the present invention is used by being attached to a vehicle seat 1. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, the seat 1 of the automobile according to this embodiment is erected from a seat cushion 2 and a lying-down state (not shown) lying on the seat cushion 2. And a seat back 3 connected so as to be rotatable. And the headrest 10 of this invention is attached to the seat back 3, and is used. Of course, this is only an example, and it may be attached to the rear seat that does not rise.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the headrest 10 according to the present invention is mainly composed of a stay 20 and a headrest body 30. The stay 20 supports the headrest body 30 above the seat back 3, and includes a horizontal support bar member 22 having a substantially circular cross section and a pair of vertical supports extending downward from the left and right ends of the horizontal support bar member 22. It consists of a bar portion 21 and has an inverted U shape.

  The headrest body 30 has a net member 32 stretched over a frame 31 that is formed of a rod material in a substantially rectangular shape or a substantially elliptical shape. The net member 32 may be knitted with resin fibers, but is preferably knitted with a cotton material in view of flexibility, touch, absorbability of scalp sweat, and the like.

  A connecting member 40 is interposed between the headrest body 30 and the stay 20. As shown in FIG. 4, the connecting member 40 is a bar having an arc shape in a side view. A pair is stretched over the frame 31.

  The frame 31 and the connecting member 40 may be formed of an aluminum alloy or the like, but if formed of a glass fiber material, high strength and high toughness can be imparted, which is preferable.

10. ・ Headrest 20 ・ ・ Stay 21 ・ ・ Vertical support rod member 22 ・ ・ Horizontal support rod member 30 ・ ・ Headrest body 31 ・ ・ Frame 32 ・ ・ Net 40 ・ ・ Connecting member

Claims (3)

A pair of vertical support bar members held on the left and right of the upper part of the seat back of the automobile seat, and a stay having a substantially U shape including a horizontal support bar member connecting the pair of vertical support bar members;
A headrest body in which a net is stretched on a frame made of bar material;
A connecting member composed of a rod connecting the state headrest body,
Headrest composed of   The headrest according to claim 1, wherein the frame and the connecting member of the headrest body are formed of a glass fiber material.   The headrest according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the net material is formed of a cotton material.

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