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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chinmoy Pal, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Izumi Kobayashi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-Ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/42 ; B60R 2/100 ; B60R 2/228 ; A47C 7/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/42 ; B60R 2/100 ; B60R 2/228 ; A47C 7/36 ;
Abstract
A headrest apparatus for a vehicle has a headrest body provided with a left headrest member and a right headrest member and a locking unit for holding the left and right headrest members at their initial positions. At a vehicle rear-end collision, the locking unit is released by a control unit for detecting the vehicle rear-end collision. As a result, the left and right headrest members rotate forward about the vehicle, so that a sheet stretched between respective separation ends of the members is unfolded to restrict a passenger's head without making use of the passenger's inertia at the collision, surely and rapidly.