Abstract: A headrest for an automobile seat has a headrest body and an attachment member to be attached to a back of the seat to allow the headrest body to be moved up and down with respect to the seat back in a standing posture, while allowing the headrest body to be rotated about a pivot shaft to move a lower end of the headrest body in a frontward-rearward direction of the automobile. The headrest body has an expanded rear portion thereof to expand rearwardly and configured so that a distance between the surface of the expanded portion and the pivot shaft gradually decreases toward an upper edge of the expanded portion. The expanded portion is opposed to an upper surface of the seat back in the standing posture and contacts the upper surface when the attachment member is moved down.

Abstract: A headrest for an automobile seat has a headrest body and an attachment member to be attached to a back of the seat to allow the headrest body to be moved up and down with respect to the seat back in a standing posture, while allowing the headrest body to be rotated about a pivot shaft to move a lower end of the headrest body in a frontward-rearward direction of the automobile. The headrest body has an expanded rear portion thereof to expand rearwardly and configured so that a distance between the surface of the expanded portion and the pivot shaft gradually decreases toward an upper edge of the expanded portion. The expanded portion is opposed to an upper surface of the seat back in the standing posture and contacts the upper surface when the attachment member is moved down.

Abstract: A character pattern generating apparatus providing a character pattern which can be reduced or enlarged in size providing high fidelity. The apparatus stores outline data of the dot patterns to be displayed. The outline data includes line segments and/or subcurves and associated correction data. In computing the display coordinates for the selected outline data, the line segments and/or subcurves forming the outline are multiplied by a scaling factor modified by the correction data.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating character pattern signals in response to a character code and an attribute signal, in which the character has an outline which may be divided into a plurality of regions in which each region is defined by an initial point, a terminal point and a control point includes an outline storage circuit for converting the control point into an auxiliary point having coordinates on a curve of the character and for storing the initial point, terminal point and auxiliary point as data. An outline reproducing circuit converts the data into scaled down data, standard sized data or enlarged data in response to the attribute signal and produces a conic line based upon the converted data.

Abstract: A character pattern signal generator for generating a signal corresponding to a character being formed as a plurality of dots forming an outline body includes an outline memory for storing character code data corresponding to an outline of a standard size character. An outline data calculating circuit receives the outline data and a magnification signal and calculates character outline data in response thereto. A dot pattern generating circuit converts said character outline data into dot pattern data representing the character outline. A dot pattern compensating circuit detects a number of dots separated by a space from the body of the character outline and compensates the dot pattern data by a number of dots to be added to the dot pattern data at the space when the magnification factor is less than one and the number of dots is less than a predetermined value.