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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard W. O'Connor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian H. Steuer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C 1/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C 1/10 ;
Abstract
A headrest. In one embodiment, the headrest includes a support member having a center portion and an end portion which is integrally formed and which extends angularly from the center portion. A wing member is coupled to the end portion by a hinge mechanism that has sufficient friction to maintain any of a plurality of positions under a load of a human head leaning against said wing member, yet yields when a greater load is applied.