Itw Automotive Products Gmbh Co. Kg

Gerd Fischer

Roland Och

Carsten Albracht

Gerald Mawbey

Ronald Klühspies

Werner Seppelt

A neck rest for a seat of an automobile has a neck rest body which includes a neck rest cushion and at least two neck rest rods connected with the neck rest body, the neck rest rods being accommodated in the back rest of the seat. Each of the neck rest rod has a support portion attached thereto. The neck rest body includes a housing which has a front wall and a rear wall, the cushion being attached to an outer side of the front wall and the rear wall, with the support portion being located in the housing between the front and the rear walls. The housing is moveable between a basic position and an extended position.

Expandable crash-active neck rest

A neck rest includes first and second supports having first and second positions where the supports are at approximately the same level and the second support is elevated relative to the first support, respectively. A first spring is supported by the first support and rotatably connected to the second support to bias the second support into the second position. A movable locking element biased by a second spring on the first support automatically blocks the second support in the second position. A locking element is movably supported by the first support and cooperates with a projection of the second support to lock the second support in the first position. A releasing element is movably supported by the first support and releases the locking element when actuated. A supporting member is located between the supports in the second position for transferring shock forces from the second support to the first support.

Neck rest for the seat of an automobile

A seat for an automobile includes a backrest fitted with a frame, an adjusting device inside the backrest in the region of the lumbar vertebral column, an elongated, resiliently bending element running transversely inside the frame, two bowden cables each with a sheath and a traction wire, a drive device at the backrest one rest for each bowden cable sheath in each end zone off the elongated element and through which the traction wire is made to pass in longitudinally displaceable manner, an affixation of the free end of the traction wire at a part of the backrest frame facing it whereby the elongated element is suspended in such manner in the frame that, when a tension is exerted on the traction wire, the elongated element shall be moved forward.

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Weikersheim, Germany

Gerd Fischer