Patents by Inventor Daniel ASSEFA

Daniel ASSEFA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10017084
    Abstract: A headrest arrangement on a motor vehicle the head rest assembly includes a headrest, a back rest, and at least a guide rod. The guide rod connects the back rest with the headrest. The headrest is adjustable between a first locking position and at least a second lock position. The headrest arrangement can occupy an adjustment and a lock mode while in lock mode the head rest in a lock position is locked and the headrest from the first to the at least second locking position is adjustable in the adjustment mode. The backrest includes a locking facility with a lock body to lock the headrest in the lock position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Matthias Maass, Daniel Assefa
  • Publication number: 20170174107
    Abstract: Proposed is a headrest assembly 1 for a motor vehicle. The headrest assembly encompasses a headrest 2, a backrest 3 and at least one guide rod 4, wherein the guide rod 4 joins the backrest 3 with the headrest 2. The headrest 2 can be adjusted between a first locking position and at least one second locking position. The headrest assembly 1 can assume an adjustment mode and locking mode, wherein, in the locking mode, the headrest 2 is locked in a locking position, and in the adjustment mode, the headrest 2 can be adjusted from the first locking position into the at least second locking position. The at least one guide rod 4 encompasses at least two axially spaced apart latching notches, wherein at least one of the latching notches is designed as a catching notch 6, and exhibits a latching surface 10 and a sliding surface 9, wherein the latching surface 10 forms a bearing surface, and the sliding surface 9 is a surface inclined relative to the axial plane of the guide rod 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Matthias MAASS, Daniel ASSEFA