Hands-free device for vehicle headrest and method of use

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The hands-free device of the instant invention is intended for use with a mobile phone and a vehicle seat support structure.
The device includes a speaker and a microphone for use in combination with a connecting structure.
The device is coupled to the connecting structure, allowing the connecting structure to engage the vehicle seat headrest support structure with the speaker and microphone adjacent the head of an occupant of the seat.
The seat occupant is thereby able to hear information communicated via a mobile phone electrically coupled to the speaker of the hands-free device, while simultaneously allowing the occupant to communicate via the microphone of the device.
More specifically, the hands-free device is intended for use with a mobile phone and a vehicle headrest support structure of the type that includes a pair of pillars that extend from the headrest into a top portion of a vehicle seat.
The device is comprised of a generally elongated shaped housing that includes therein a speaker, and is provided at one end thereof with a microphone assembly.
In a preferred embodiment the elongated shaped housing is provided with a strap-securing structure that accommodates a strap end that passes through the strap-securing structure and around both pillars to be secured with a strap fastener at another end of the strap, to thereby secure the device between the pillars and intermediate the headrest at the top of the seat.
The strap-securing structure includes a span portion that is in part coupled to the strap over a section of the strap to thereby ensure that the elongated housing of the device is physically secured to and stably aligned with the strap in a generally parallel relationship to the strap over the strap section.
The elongated housing portion that spans the strap section does so in such a manner that the device and strap are slidably secured relative to each other.
The strap section resides between the elongated housing and the housing span portion, which is structurally configured to provide a region thereof adapted to receive a mating portion of a module fastener