Chairs and seats inventions 06/07

20070145788 - Stowable passenger seat with roll bar: A rumble seat for increasing passenger capacity of a motor vehicle by at least one occupant includes a combination seat back frame and roll bar moveable between a retracted position and an extended position. The combination seat back frame and roll bar can be selectively operated for carrying at least... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070145789 - Aircraft seat assembly: An aircraft seat assembly comprises a continuous row of a plurality of seats including a convertible aisle seat at one end of the row and one or more other seats. The seats are moveable between (i) a first configuration in which all of the seats are positioned in a useable... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070145790 - Juvenile high chair: A juvenile chair having convenience features including a folding mechanism, an adjustable tray mechanism and a tray insert having decorative indicia thereon.... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20070145791 - Locking device for a tray table system in a seat, in particular an aircraft passenger seat: In the case of a locking device for a tray table system in a seat, in particular an aircraft passenger seat, with a first (3) and a second tray table part (5) that can be moved around swivel axes (25 or 37), different from one another, between horizontal use positions... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070145792 - Retractable canopy: A canopy that reciprocates in and out of a channel of a back assembly for a chair, the canopy comprises a pair of flexible members, a weatherproof panel and a pair of bias members. Each flexible member has a first rod end, a second rod end and a rod body... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070145793 - Saddler and its frame: The invented saddle comprises a support, a wing part fixed to its one end, a nose part fixed to the other end and a flexible material assembly connecting the wing part and the nose part. The wing part provides a first surface of a predetermined shape. The nose part provides... Agent: Venable LLP Raymond J. Ho

20070145794 - Seat post for a bicycle: A seat post for a bicycle includes a tubular element that supports a seat of a bicycle and grasping element of a portion of a frame of the seat. The grasping elements are adapted to be coupled to the tubular element and to be selectively activated/deactivated to prevent/allow a translation... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070145795 - Dynamic seat with inflatable bladder: A novel and unique bicycle seat for a rider includes a base having a base top surface with an inflatable bladder having a bladder top surface. The inflatable bladder is disposed on the base top surface and the base top surface and the bladder top surface together form a seat... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20070145796 - Headrest apparatus: A headrest apparatus comprising a headrest rear portion supported at a seatback, a headrest front portion movable between a fully retracted position and a fully expanded position, a driving means moving the headrest front portion, an capacitance sensor outputting a detection signal representing an capacitance, a controller moving the headrest... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070145797 - Seat cover: A bordering edge of cover members and a bordering edge of cover members of a sitting portion cover of a seat cover are folded back in a longitudinal direction along raised portions of a sitting portion, creased, and attached to the rest of the members while being smoothly curved in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070145798 - Adjustable chair cover: The applicant describes a two-piece adjustable chair cover that is easy to install and has a tailored appearance. The chair cover protects chairs from staining and other damage and includes a back cover and a seat cover. The back cover and seat cover connect to one another via first adjustable... Agent: Weatherly Kerven & Seigel LLC

20070145799 - Support skeleton for a juvenile transport product and method: A support skeleton for a juvenile transport product, such as an infant carrier. The skeleton rigidly supports the juvenile transport product in a predetermined configuration, and a foam body is molded to the skeleton and supported thereby. The foam body has a shape generally corresponding to the shape of the... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20070145800 - Fitting for a vehicle seat: In a fitting for a vehicle seat, in particular a detent fitting for a motor vehicle seat, having a first fitting part; a second fitting part that can be rotated and locked relative to the first fitting part; at least one locking element (17) the longitudinal direction of which is... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070145801 - Seat reclining device for vehicle: A vehicle seat reclining device includes a lock mechanism at each side of the vehicle seat for restricting or allowing a rotational movement of a seat back relative to a seat cushion. The lock mechanism includes a cam mechanism rotating around a rotational axis of the seat back relative to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070145802 - Semi-rigid anterior head alignment system: An anterior support for the head of a person seated in a wheelchair or other type of chair. The support can be pivoted from a position behind the chair to a position wherein a forehead strap engages the anterior portion of the head to hold the head adjacent a headrest... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070145803 - Adjuster of the vertical adjustment of a head restraint: An adjuster is proposed for the vertical adjustment of a head restraint (1, 2) of a seat (3), said head restraint being equipped with adjustment means (4) movable in an adjustment direction (A) which are formed in such a manner that it can engage with a head restraint (1, 2),... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070145804 - Headrest bushing and vehicle seat using the same: A headrest bushing into which a headrest stay are inserted for supporting a head rest includes a lock mechanism for preventing disengagement of the headrest stay from the headrest bush; and an unlock mechanism having a button for unlocking the lock mechanism and a housing for accommodating which has an... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070145805 - Adjustable operator interface: An adjustable operator interface for a work machine is provided. The adjustable operator interface has an operator compartment with a forward direction, and includes a seat, a mounting plate, an armrest and an armbar. The seat is secured within the operator compartment. The mounting plate is also secured within the... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20070145806 - Linear actuator having a clutch for an airline seat: A linear actuator includes a first sleeve that rotatable about an actuation axis, and a second sleeve that is at least partially disposed in the first sleeve. The second sleeve is rotatable about the actuation axis and axially moveable along the actuation axis relative to the first sleeve. The actuator... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070145807 - Vehicle seat, in particular a motor vehicle seat: In a vehicle seat (1), in particular a motor vehicle that is for a rear installation and includes a seat cushion support (3) that is constructed from multiple components (41, 43, 45) that are connected with each other, the seat cushion support (3) contains in the direction (y) transverse to... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070145808 - Motor vehicle seat: A vehicle seat for a motor vehicle has a cushion core and ventilation ducts which run along and inside a seat surface and/or backrest surface, and each have a constant cross section ventilation channels are essentially arranged transversely to the ventilation ducts, have a constant cross section, penetrate the entire... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070138842 - Folding chair: A folding chair includes a base frame having front and rear portions rotatably coupled to each other for relative movement between opened and collapsed conditions. The frame members of the front and rear portions of the base frame respectively define front and rear legs providing standing support for the chair... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070138843 - Seating apparatus: The present invention relates to a seating apparatus, and more particularly to a combined table and chair. We describe a seating apparatus comprising a table (25), a chair (26) and a table base (16) wherein the table comprises a table top (10) and a table leg (11) defining an axis... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070138844 - Buffer cushion for automobiles: The present invention discloses a buffer cushion for automobiles including: a main air chamber (2) having a size corresponding to the sizes of the automobile seats; an auxiliary air chamber (3) having a relatively smaller size than the main air chamber (2); an interconnecting chamber (4) formed integrally with the... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070138845 - Infant surround support: An infant surround support having a head support member and opposite side support members and foot rest members forming a relatively continuous peripheral cushion support for an infant.... Agent: Reilly Intellectual Property Law Firm

20070138846 - Seat attachment device: A seat attachment device is provided that uses a single bolt to secure the seat rails to the seat attachment device and the seat attachment device to a post.... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070138847 - Vehicle seat with lowered position: Vehicle seat, in particular a motor vehicle seat, with a seat part (3) that is linked to a support via a cushion-four-joint (42), a backrest that can be tilted and locked by at least one fitting and which is linked to the cushion-four-joint (42) through a link-four-joint (48), in which... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070138848 - Aircraft passenger seat: The invention relates to an aircraft passenger seat with seat components, such as a seating piece and a backrest (1) comprising a support structure (11), supporting a backrest cushion (13), on the back face of which a food table, which may be folded against the same and extended into an... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070138849 - Pew style seating assembly: A pew style seating assembly includes a plurality of seat members, each of which is pivotable, independently from all others of the plurality of seat members, between an occupied position and an unoccupied position. Each seat member, when in the occupied position, defines a seating area above a top surface... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070138850 - Multi-directional, self-righting chair: A self-righting chair of the present invention includes: (i) a seat; (ii) a base member; and (iii) a connector connecting the base member to the seat, wherein the base member has a curved configuration, and wherein the base member has sufficient weight, such that when a force is exerted to... Agent: David B. Dellenbach Workman Nydegger

20070138851 - Ergonomic chair backrest: A “task” chair intended primarily for a person working at a computer terminal has a back provided with a pair of upright struts that incorporate respective parallelogram linkages operative to increase the curvature of the lumbar region of the seat back while at least substantially maintaining the contour of the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070138852 - Combination seat and storage enclosure method and apparatus: A seat having a back portion and a bottom portion can be inverted to form a storage enclosure, wherein the back portion forms the top of the enclosure and the bottom portion forms a side of the enclosure. Movable end panels may also be provided to secure the ends of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070138853 - Seat reclining apparatus for vehicle: A seat reclining apparatus for a vehicle includes a first plate including internal gear teeth, a second plate including external gear teeth, a third plate including internal gear teeth, a fourth plate including external gear teeth, a shaft rotatably supported by the first and third plates, a first and second... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070138854 - Folding recliner of seat for vehicles: Disclosed herein is a folding recliner of a seat for vehicles which is able to execute both seat folding and reclining motions using only a single lever. The folding recliner of the present invention includes a lever unit, which has a lever pin and a lever, so that, when the... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20070138855 - Vehicle seat, in particular a sports seat: In the case of a vehicle seat, in particular a sports seat, with at least one seat component (4), a frame shell (10) is provided as the supporting structure thereof, the frame shell integrating the shape of a frame and the function of an adapter for optionally receiving/attaching a comfort-enhancing... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070138856 - Gardening chair: A gardening chair 10 is provided for supporting a user 12 thereon. The gardening chair 10 is provided with a base support member 14, and a seat 52 aligned with and coupled to upper portions of the base support member for supporting a user's lower body thereon. A diagonally extending... Agent: Kenneth D. Baugh

20070132282 - Lifting means: The invention relates to apparatus which can be used to move a person supported on the apparatus between a lying position in which the apparatus is substantially flat on a support surface and a seating position supported by the apparatus. The apparatus includes a frame which supports sheet material on... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20070132283 - Armchair tablet hinge system: The invention relates to an armchair tablet hinge system. According to the invention, the tablet (1) is mounted to an armrest of the armchair by means of a support (4), said support containing a hollow shaft (5). The end of the hollow shaft is provided with a head (6) to... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070132284 - Headliner mounted center high mount stop lamp (chmsl): A console sliding armrest assembly for a vehicle includes a storage compartment having an opening for allowing ingress and egress of objects, and a console lid pivotally connected to the storage compartment. The lid may include a sliding armrest operatively engaged therewith. A guide assembly may be disposed within the... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070132285 - Light-weight snowmobile seat: A snowmobile seat configured to be disposed over a track tunnel of a snowmobile includes a base section including closed-cell foam configured to be disposed over the track tunnel of the snowmobile. A seat section including open-cell foam is disposed over at least a portion of the base section. The... Agent: Garron M. Hobson

20070132286 - Car seat: In a front part inside a seat cushion are arranged a catching member extending in a widthwise direction of the seat cushion and movable up and down, and inertial force transmission means for moving the catching member upward by the inertial force that acts on an inertial mass at the... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070132287 - Spherically guided safety seating system: A base for fixing the safety seating system in a passenger car has an external guiding member that more than equatorially encompasses an internal guiding member for a direct spherical guiding of a removable seated newly born infant. The infant is seated with respect to the geometrical pivoting center and... Agent: Johannes Schneeberger

20070132288 - Electrical docking station: An electrical docking station for attachment to a vehicle seat. A variety of different modules each including circuitry for performing certain seat functions can be removably attached to the docking station. The docking station includes a connector plate for connecting the wires from the modules to the seat, as well... Agent: Artz & Artz, P.C.

20070132289 - Vehicle seating system and method for reducing fatigue: A vehicle seating system can be used within a variety of vehicles to reduce positional fatigue and other effects of long distance traveling. Such a system includes a typical vehicle seat mountable in a vehicle, at least two powered seat adjustment actuators, and an electrical controller. The actuators are moveable... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070132290 - Head rest cover having facial features: A head rest cover is provided with a plush head having facial features and a movement mechanism supported within the plush head for moving at least one of the facial features, such as the eyes, nose, ears, mouth and eyebrows.... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070132291 - Feet for stacking chair: A chair foot device for a wire frame chair stackable with other wire frame chairs includes a lower surface disposable on a support surface. An upper surface, opposite the lower surface is sized and shaped to carry the lower surface of an adjacent foot from an adjacently stacked upper chair.... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070132292 - Adjustable reclining chair: One aspect of the invention concerns a lift-recliner chair comprising a base portion (12), a seat portion (14) pivotally connected to the base portion, a back portion (16) pivotally connected to the seat portion and a first actuator (62) for moving the seat portion with respect to the base portion... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070132293 - Vehicle seat: A vehicle seat includes a seat back portion, a cushion portion supported by a frame portion and provided to be movable, a supporting body included in the frame portion, a movable body included in the cushion portion and movable in the forward and backward direction, at least one guide wall... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070132294 - Seat reclining apparatus for vehicle: A seat reclining apparatus for a vehicle includes a first plate held at one of a seat cushion frame and a seatback frame, a second plate held at the other one of the seat cushion frame and the seatback frame, a pole having an external tooth facing the internal tooth,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070132295 - Buoyant pool chair with sealed frame: A buoyant pool chair supports a swimmer in an upright, semi-reclining or sitting position while the chair is floating in a swimming pool. Interconnected rigid frame members collectively form an open chair frame for supporting buoyant cushions. The buoyant cushions include layers of flexible cushion material secured together in overlapping... Agent: Dennis T. Griggs North Dallas Bank Tower

20070132296 - Automatic lumbar support system for a folding seat system: A folding seat system includes a lower seat portion and a seat back pivotally coupled thereto such that the seat back collapses towards the lower seat portion and opens away from the lower seat portion. Coupled to the seat back is a lumbar support basket including an upper pivot rod... Agent: Artz & Artz, P.C.

20070132297 - Pole guide for a headrest of an automobile: The present invention provides a pole guide for a headrest of an automobile, which does not deform in high temperatures in welding in its manufacturing process, so that both side ends of the pole guide do not gape or warp at a joint thereof. The pole guide is obtained by... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070132298 - A seat comfort device, and methods of constructing and utilizing same: A seat comfort device to make it comfortable for children to ride in cars and/or to use with booster or child safety seats. Both sides of the device are provided with pillows for resting the user's head, and to prevent the child from falling over when the child is asleep.... Agent: Irving M. Weiner Weiner & Burt, P.C.

20070132299 - Head restraint system and method for producing same: A head restraint system and a method for producing a vehicle head restraint system include an in situ molding process that includes disposing at least a portion of a structural frame within a head restraint pad cover. An automatic return system is also disposed within the pad cover. An uncured... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070132300 - Retractable headrest for vehicle: A retractable headrest for vehicle having a general versatility. All the components of a retracting mechanism for retracting a headrest body are provided inside the headrest body. Thus, any additional component does not need to be provided inside a seatback. Accordingly, even if the seatback can take various forms according... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070132301 - Easy assembly sofa kit: This invention is a kit from which a love seat type sofa can easily be assemble by a consumer at home with simple tools. It has a basal structural assembly that is an “E” shaped assembly of boards with a brace across the open part of the “E” and a... Agent: Charles R. Sutton Law Offices Of Roger C. Hsu

20070132302 - Tamper resistant attachment device for a chair backrest: A tamper resistant attachment apparatus for attaching a backrest to a chair frame. A flap is foldably coupled to an edge of a chair backrest. The flap is foldable over onto the backrest into a folded position. The flap has a channel that fits around a frame of a chair... Agent: Garron M. Hobson

20070132303 - Seat support apparatus: A seat support apparatus includes a seat supporting beam unit which, to absorb a torque, has at least two force-absorbing elements, the longitudinal axes of which intersect in an intersecting point above at least one top side of the seat supporting beam unit.... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070126267 - Reclining seating unit with backrest support frame and cloth backrest support deck: A reclining seating unit includes: a base; a seat; a backrest with a skeletal backrest frame and a fabric support deck that envelopes the backrest frame; and a reclining mechanism attached to the base, seat and backrest. The reclining mechanism comprises a plurality of pivotally interconnected links and being configured... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070126268 - Mezzotint rocker machine: The rocker machine of the invention can be worked to produce uniformly engraved plates of any size and suitable for mezzotint engraving. The rocker machine includes a table, a rocker assembly and a guide assembly. The table can be rotatable or fixed, and is inclined at an angle to the... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20070126269 - Seat for motorcycles: An improved seat is disclosed. The seat is of the type incorporated in use in a motorcycle. The improvement comprises electromagnetic shielding material incorporated into said seat and adapted to shield an operator of said motorcycle at least in part from electromagnetic energy produced thereby in use.... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070126270 - Process for moduling the interior space of a vehicle and a seat for performing this process: A process for adjusting the interior space of a vehicle and a seat for implementation of the process. The process makes it possible to adjust the interior space of a vehicle including seats each having a sitting portion and a back. The process includes, for at least one seat, moving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070126271 - Adjustable cross-legged support seat: A seating device for allowing a user to sit in either a cross-legged yoga position or in a conventional manner, the seating device including leg supports which can be adjusted into a variety of positions to supporting a user's legs when sitting cross-legged in a variety of places to accommodate... Agent: Stephen M. De Klerk Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070126272 - Vehicle seat: Vehicle seat includes a seat frame, a backrest frame with a motor fastened thereto, a rotary adjustment fitting with a backrest-side fitting half attached to backrest frame, and a seat-side fitting half, rotatable relative to one another via a shaft driven by the motor. There is a locking device shiftable... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP

20070126273 - Vehicle seat assembly and storage panel: A passenger seat assembly for a vehicle includes a storage panel assembly. The seat assembly has a seat back foldable between upright and generally horizontal positions relative to a seat bottom. The seat back has a rear surface incorporating the storage panel assembly. The storage panel assembly has a platform... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070126274 - Vehicle seat with function of absorbing volatile substances: A vehicle seat with a function of absorbing volatile substances in an interior of a vehicle with the seat is disclosed. The vehicle seat comprises a seat frame structure, a cushioned padding member supported on the seat frame structure, and a volatile substances-absorbing member provided on a surface of the... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20070126275 - Vehicle seat system: The present invention provides a seat system for a vehicle and method of manufacturing the same. The seat system includes a seat foam pad having a headrest portion and a backrest portion. A structural support member is included that is formed of a foam material that is substantially enclosed by... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070126276 - Seating unit with formed cushion, and manufacturing method: A cushion subassembly includes a support, a cushion of non-woven polymeric (PET) or PETE fibers with a formed edge that wraps over an edge of the support, and an upholstery sock pulled onto and covering the support and the cushion. The formed edge has sufficient structure to retain the cushion... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20070126277 - Inboard buckle attachment for a four-way seat: The inboard buckle for a four-way seat is attached to the seat through a variable buckle guide. Attaching the inboard buckle to the seat allows the buckle to move with the seat and obviates the need for a long buckle which introduces undesirable slack into the seat belt system during... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19