If you are doing this in more than one place in your application it would make sense to use a client-side JSON database because creating custom search functions that get called by array.filter() is messy and less maintainable than the alternative.
Check out ForerunnerDB which provides you with a very powerful client-side JSON database system and includes a very simple query language to help you do exactly what you are looking for:
// Create a new instance of ForerunnerDB and then ask for a database
var fdb = new ForerunnerDB(),
db = fdb.db('myTestDatabase'),
coll;
// Create our new collection (like a MySQL table) and change the default
// primary key from "_id" to "id"
coll = db.collection('myCollection', {primaryKey: 'id'});
// Insert our records into the collection
coll.insert([
{"name":"my Name","id":12,"type":"car owner"},
{"name":"my Name2","id":13,"type":"car owner2"},
{"name":"my Name4","id":14,"type":"car owner3"},
{"name":"my Name4","id":15,"type":"car owner5"}
]);
// Search the collection for the string "my nam" as a case insensitive
// regular expression - this search will match all records because every
// name field has the text "my Nam" in it
var searchResultArray = coll.find({
name: /my nam/i
});
console.log(searchResultArray);
/* Outputs
[
{"name":"my Name","id":12,"type":"car owner"},
{"name":"my Name2","id":13,"type":"car owner2"},
{"name":"my Name4","id":14,"type":"car owner3"},
{"name":"my Name4","id":15,"type":"car owner5"}
]
*/
Disclaimer: I am the developer of ForerunnerDB.