Adient Luxembourg Holding S.a.r.l.

Johnson Controls Technology Company

David Hayes

Michael Leighton

Edward J Lamont

Srinivasa N Sanku

Patrick Donnelly

Kurt A Seibold

Eric Bernard Michalak

John Gomez

Michael J Kapusky

Ornela Zekavica

James D Biebel

Alexander I Balin

William Shawn Brewer

Dalibor Dimovski

Daniel James Sakkinen

Kenneth M Clark

Ronald G Bedro

Catherine M Amodeo

Emery Jay Zadina

Nicholas Petouhoff

Joseph F Prosniewski

Tyler Rusnak

Miodrag Petrovich

Mark A Harris

Robert J Hicks

Phillip Wayne Wilson

Anthony Kestian

Elizabeth Ann Allen

Mark S Williamson

Alex Saveski

Alan Boyko

Steve Clark

Joel Jamison

Andrew J Erard

Michael G Buss

Kurt A Seiboid

A vehicle headrest includes a carriage with support rods, an outer headrest connected to the carriage, a vertical locking arrangement with a locking element having a locked state and a released state relative to a support rod locking interface. Release levers, accessible from respective sides, move essentially along a vehicle direction of travel. Release carriers, moveably mounted to the carriage, moves essentially along a vehicle inboard/outboard direction and moves the locking element into the released state. Each release linkage activates the movement of the release carrier. The headrest also includes a forward and rearward locking arrangement for movement of the outer headrest relative to the carriage with support rods with at least some forward and/or rearward movement component. The movement arrangement, for movement of the outer headrest relative to the carriage, does not interrupt the release linkage connection for activating the movement of the release carrier.

Vehicle seat headrest with lever release

A mechanism for folding a head restraint for a backrest of a seat, including a head restraint and a cross portion, where the cross portion is fixed relative to the backrest. The cross portion defines a first pivot axis, which the head restraint is pivoted about. The cross portion includes a locking disc. The head restraint comprises a cam that pivots about a second pivot axis. The head restraint is configured to be positioned in a usage-position relative to the cross portion and a storage-position relative to the cross portion. The position of the head restraint is changeable between the usage-position and the storage-position by pivoting about the first pivot axis. The cam is configured to be positioned in a locking-position and a releasing-position relative to the head restraint.

Folding head restraint mechanism

A head restraint may include a support structure with an opening, adjustable flexible elongated members, and an adjustment mechanism. The elongated members may be attached to the support structure, may span the opening in the support structure, and may be configured to support a user's head. The adjustment mechanism may be configured to at least one of automatically and/or manually adjust tension of at least portions of the elongated members spanning the opening.

Adjustable head restraint

A seat back structure includes a web extending about a central opening, and an inner flange extending about an inner perimeter of the web adjacent to the central opening. The seat back structure also includes an outer flange extending about an outer perimeter of the web. The inner flange, the outer flange and the web form a channel extending about the seat back structure, and the seat back structure is formed from a single piece of material.

One-piece seat back structure

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West Bloomfield, MI, United States of America

David Hayes