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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2019
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Mikael Jarsaeter, Burlingame, CA (US);
Markus Jost, San Mateo, CA (US);
Andrew John Piper, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marcos Puerta Terron, Cheltenham, GB;
Andrew Frank Raczkowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Daria Di Costanzo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A headrest may be fixed relative to a seat or a bank of seats in a vehicle and can provide multiple stages of deformation in response to a collision event. The headrest can include a resilient member that deforms in response to a first force caused by the collision event. The headrest can also include a frame that deforms in a first manner in response to a second force greater than the first force and in a second manner in response to a third force greater than the second force. Such a headrest can provide improved impact mitigation for occupants, regardless of height and/or weight such that occupants ranging from the 5to 95percentile in height and/or weight are afforded similar impact mitigation despite a fixed headrest structure. In some examples, multiple such headrests may be conjoined.