Laterally Collapsible Patents (Class 297/398)
  • Patent number: 11040646
    Abstract: A head securing assembly for supporting a user's head while sleeping and sitting upright in a seat includes a pair of clamps that is each positionable on a top side of a backrest of a seat in a vehicle. Each of the clamps is positioned on opposite sides of a headrest post with respect to each other. A support is coupled to each of the clamps and the support is directed forwardly from the backrest of the seat. A pair of cushions is each slidably coupled to the support and each of the cushions can be positioned on opposite sides of a user's head when the user sits in the seat. In this way the user's head is inhibited from tipping to the left or to the right when the user is sleeping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Nana Owusu-Sekyere
  • Patent number: 9924802
    Abstract: A resting apparatus comprising two independent telescoping legs having two longitudinal rotatable leg anchors. The telescoping legs are attached to a locking mechanism that uses a bracket having a clip that fits into various holes depending on the user's desired sleep angle. The bracket is integrally formed in the body of the substantially u-shaped pillow. The telescoping legs also have a height locking system primarily comprising of two separate channels, a first channel allowing for vertical movement and side channels used to lock in the desired height. The resting apparatus can be broken down such that the rotatable leg anchors form a handle for ease of use while traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventors: Alan Mills, Julia Silva Rettig
  • Patent number: 8950813
    Abstract: An integrated adjustable headrest includes a first curved head support and a second curved head support. Each of the curved head supports is secured to an adjustable rail, which itself is connected to the vertical track of a respective interior compartment. The interior compartment is located near the top of a chair, near a headrest section, inside a cavity. The curved head support can slide in and out of the adjustable rail slot. When extended, a person can rest their head on the curved head support. The curved head supports are also tiltable and extendable by manipulating the interior compartments or the adjustable rails. Locking mechanisms allow a user to adjust both the extension of the curved head supports and the angle of the adjustable rail slots. Once adjusted, the locking mechanisms secure the curved head supports in a desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Inventor: Ali Nawaz
  • Patent number: 8850642
    Abstract: A support device such as a head support is disclosed. The head support has a frame configured for arrangement between collapsed and assembled dispositions. The head support may also have a pad and/or a cushion. In an example, the frame includes a base, a front riser, a support and a rear riser. After assembly, the central plane of the front riser is configured at an angle relative to the central planes of the base and the support, and may be substantially parallel with the central plane of the rear riser. To prepare the head support for transport, the central plane of the base can be configured substantially parallel to central planes of the front riser, the support, and the rear riser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Inventor: Steven W. Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 7448686
    Abstract: A headrest for a dental chair that provides both the desirable support to a patient's head as well as avoiding damage to hairstyling is disclosed. The invention provides a U-shaped headrest that allows for comfortable resting of a patient's head on the headrest. The U-shape may be subject to a variety of mechanical changes, for example, making an opening bigger or. smaller, or changes in the angle of the headrest itself so that it better fits the counter of a patient's head. Such changes may be made through manual, pneumatic, or electrical control, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Inventor: Nelson Mark Hersh
  • Patent number: 7213884
    Abstract: 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 firmer pad hardness in the supporting position than in the resting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Karsten Radonaut, Andreas Schmidt, Andreas Weingart, Guenter Franzmann
  • Patent number: 7032974
    Abstract: 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 assembly to a pair of uprights supporting a seat back; and adjusting the headrest assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Inventor: Karla Klumpp Berger
  • Patent number: 6938958
    Abstract: 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 looped members on each of the side supports. The looped wire provides for adjustability of the side supports. The support member includes an elastic strap and padded wire clips for attachment to a toddler car seat or automobile head rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Gold Bug, Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Gold, Lynn Rosen
  • Patent number: 6935695
    Abstract: A portable traveller headrest is provided. The portable traller headrest includes a bar that may be articulated so that it can be folded onto itself, the ends of said bar having transversal holes to fix the bar to a seat with a fixing mechanism that adapts to different thickness of a top edge of various seats and fixes the bar to a backrest of the seats by pressure and at a desired height chosen by the user. Headrest elements, which comprise thin plates made of a rigid material and have a cushioned cover, can be connected, disconnected and rotated in discrete positions relative to the bar . The fixing mechanism is hingedly mounted in holes located on the bar, thereby requiring little space for storing the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Veme, S.A.
    Inventors: Jose Antonio Carta Gonzalez, Gerardo Garces Martin
  • Patent number: 6508513
    Abstract: A portable arm rest having an adjustable u-shaped frame assembly, which snugly fits upon the rear side of a vehicle seat back. The u-shaped frame assembly has slots for arm members. Able to slide within the slots of the frame assembly, the arm members may lock in place to allow a user to rest one or both arms while seated in the seat. The portable arm rest may be utilized in vehicles such as automobiles, vans, trucks, campers, RVs and the like, where the seats for the driver or passengers do not have a built-in arm rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Inventors: Blondell Hall, Latasha LeCounte
  • Patent number: 5997091
    Abstract: A headrest for a motor vehicle seat has pivoted lateral headrest elements which can be turned into a use position from a storage position is a headrest body. In order to comply with safety standards regarding support and freedom of vision and to satisfy multifunctional headrest requirements, the lateral headrest elements are integrated in the headrest body surface contour in the storage position and can be swung or pivoted out of the headrest body contour by a swinging or pivoting movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Bernd Rech, Ralf Bergholz
  • Patent number: 5975638
    Abstract: A dual unit to gently and user adjustably support a user's head from slumping either too much forward or too much to either side while allowing proper air circulation for user comfort when the user is in an upright position with the unit releaseably held to a chair back is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Inventor: Kevin E. Schreiner
  • Patent number: 5613736
    Abstract: A removable headrest device for seats with headrest. The device includes two boards that are joined by an elastic and an non-elastic band that embrace the headrest of the seat, and extend forward a sufficient distance to serve as a support for a user. Velcro pads are used to cooperatively tighten the non-elastic band in order to keep the removable headrest device firmly in place. Advertising or promotional or any other graphic material can be placed in the free areas of the boards. Optimally, protective covers with advertising material are removably inserted on the distal ends of the boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Inventors: Baruch Schaked, Edgar Schaked, Yaakov Schaked
  • Patent number: 5058240
    Abstract: Seat hinge for two door vehicle including a yieldable pivoted latch permitting forward seat back tilting to facilitate rear seat passenger entrance and exit without manual latch release and an inertia element responsive to vehicle deceleration for blocking latch release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Keiper Recaro, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolph C. Barda, Berno Engels
  • Patent number: 4797934
    Abstract: A speaker headrest is composed of a frame and a concave front surface to support the user's head through a cushion and members flanking the frame and rotatably attached thereto. Speakers contained in these flanking members are pressed against the user's ears when the user's head is moved backward to rest against the frame, thereby pushing lever plates attached to the flanking members backwards and causing the flanking members to rotate around their supporting axes of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Inventor: Fred M. Hufnagel
  • Patent number: 4596420
    Abstract: A child's seat assembly securable, preferably within the seat back of the backseat of a vehicle. This invention includes a molded seal and frame which is interconnectable between the vehicle's seat back support structure. The molded seat is releasably positionable, generally within the perimeter of the frame, which is preferably tubular. The frame fits either between two seat back portions or at one end of a seat back portion when installed as original vehicle equipment. When installed as an after-market accessory, the vehicle's existing seat back must be modified to accommodate installation of the frame to the support structure of the vehicle. This assembly includes two lateral head support panels, a torso containment panel, and, preferably, a foot support panel. The two head support panels are generally vertically hinged, the hinges mounted along either upper portion of the frame, while the foot support is hinged along a lower transverse cross member of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Inventor: Rohit Vaidya
  • Patent number: 4085946
    Abstract: The present invention is a wheel chair converter for use in combination with a wheel chair having a frame with a seat member, a back member and side members, a pair of large rear wheels and a pair of small front wheels to convert the wheel chair to a dental chair. The wheel chair converter includes a back rest and head rest assembly and a rectangular plate member which is mechanically coupled to the back rest and head rest assembly and which is adapted to laterally span the back member of the wheel chair. The wheel chair converter also includes a pair of tubular members and a second pair of tubular members which slideably join together to form a pair of telescoped tubular members which are disposed parallel to each other and secured by the rectangular plate member disposed orthogonal thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Inventor: Leon B. Krupp