Chairs and seats inventions 02/09

20090051196 - Sheet heating element and seat making use of the same: The seating element has an electrically insulative substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on the substrate, and a polymer resistor electrically connected to the electrodes. The polymer resistor includes resin composition cross-linked via one of oxygen atom and nitrogen atom, and at least one of fibrous conductor and flake-like conductor... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090051197 - Air supply device for a vehicle seat of a motor vehicle: An air supply device for a vehicle seat, in particular of a convertible, and a method for adjusting an airflow of an air supply device of this type are provided. In the air supply device and the method with the aid of a Peltier element which is provided in an... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090051198 - Occupant weight detecting device: A occupant weight detecting device detects the weight of an occupant setting on a vehicle seat assembly and includes a pivot support mechanism for supporting the vehicle seat assembly for pivotal movement about a horizontally extending shaft relative to a seat fixing portion in a vehicle; an elastic force applying... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090051199 - Back support for a chair: There is described a back support for a chair. The back support comprises a body for receiving a back of a user when the user is in a seated position on said chair. The body has one or more shape adaptive members capable of adapting their shape in response to... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090051200 - Regulating device for a lateral part of a seat and method for producing a lateral part: For the height adjustment of a side cheek (6) of a seat (5), a pulling force is exerted with the aid of a corresponding adjusting mechanism (4) on a movable component (7, 8) of the side cheek (6) in order to variably adjust the height of the side cheek (6).... Agent: Kang Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090051201 - Sleep over recliner chair: This invention is related to a sleep over recliner chair having a footrest mechanism and a recliner mechanism that operate independently of one another. The sleep over recliner chair includes a footrest, a seat, back, and a pair of spaced apart armrests. Further, the sleep over recliner chair includes a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090051202 - Operation lever arrangement structure of vehicle seat: The present invention relates to an operation lever arrangement structure of a vehicle seat. The seat is provided with a tilt down operation lever and a walk-in operation lever. These operation levers are disposed on a side surface portion of a shoulder portion of a seat back, so as to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090051203 - Adjustment fitting: The invention relates to an adjustment fitting for a vehicle seat. The adjustment fitting includes a first fitting part and a second fitting part connected by a wobble mechanism. The wobble mechanism includes a central wheel that is rotatable about a central axis and is connected to the first fitting... Agent: King & Spalding

20090051204 - Headrest for an office chair: “A headrest for an office chair includes a headrest body, two connecting blocks, a support frame and a hook. The support frame has two L-shaped hooks in an intermediate portion, and the headrest can be assembled with a backrest of an office chair by a hook and L-shaped hooks of... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090051205 - Foldable inflatable furniture: An inflatable item has a body. The body has a chamber therein, and defines an outer edge. An inlet is provided on the body and communicates with the chamber. A groove is cut from the outer edge of the body and extends for a depth into the body. A fold... Agent: Raymond Sun Law Offices Of Raymond Sun

20090051206 - Vehicle seat and vehicle seat evaluation method: A vehicle seat allowing to improve a vibration absorption characteristic, securing a stable seating posture, having high vehicle operability, and allowing to alleviate fatigue due to long time seating. In a seat cushion of a vehicle seat, a first human body support portion having a center at a position corresponding... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090051207 - Three-dimensional unfilled furniture: One aspect is a furniture piece configured for seating. The furniture piece includes first and second contours and a spreader mechanism coupled between the first and second contours. A three-dimensional cover envelope having panels in each of three-dimensions is configured over the first and second contours and the spreader mechanism... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090051208 - Leaf spring track latch: A seat track assembly is provided for mounting a seat to a vehicle floor A fixed track is mounted to the floor and a movable track is fixedly secured to the seat and slidably coupled to the fixed track. A latch is operatively coupled to the movable track for selectively... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20090045656 - Single-hand height adjustment mechanism of highchair: A Single-hand height adjustment mechanism of a highchair includes an operating unit handled with a single hand, and a locking unit connected with the operating unit. The operating unit uses simple movement, such as handle pressing or button pulling, to pull adjustment wires. The adjustment wires then activate or release... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090045657 - Automatic locking scba mounting bracket assembly: A mounting bracket assembly is provided for releasably holding a self-contained breathing apparatus. The assembly includes a mounting plate, a clamping arrangement secured on an upper portion of the mounting plate and movable between an unlatched position and a latched position relative to the self-contained breathing apparatus, a guide connected... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20090045658 - Vehicle seat having active head restraint system: A vehicle seat assembly having a seatback frame, an upper armature that is movable relative to the seatback frame and a head restraint mounted on the upper armature. A linkage assembly operatively interconnects the upper armature and an impact body such that movement of the impact body relative to the... Agent: Gerald E. Mcglynn, Iii Bliss Mcglynn, P.C.

20090045659 - Protection system: The protection system is used especially for the protection against a fatal effect of vertical accelerations triggered by a landmine on the passengers of an armoured vehicle. For this, the sitting unit consisting of a seat body (7) and a backrest (8) is held movable in vertical direction and is... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090045660 - Fastening bracket for a chair: The present invention concerns a fastening bracket for use in a children's chair (1) with a seat plate (2), wherein the seat plate has a vertical opening, characterized in that it comprises: a frame piece (10) comprising a vertical first opening (11), for placement on the underside of the seat... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090045661 - Device and method for seat component adjustment, and seat: A seat-component adjusting device of a compact overall size and with a high transmission ratio comprises an electric motor (10), a worm gear (11, 12) coupled at the input side to the electric motor, an eccentric gear (13, 14) coupled at the input side to the worm gear, and a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090045662 - Head rest for seat: A head rest assembly that extends when the seat back is deployed into an upright position, and retract when moved into a down or stowed position.... Agent: Kang Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090045663 - Vehicle armrest: An armrest frame (5A) bends at a hinge groove (5A2), which serves as a weak portion, when an impact load is applied to the armrest frame (5A) in an armrest (5) following a side impact with another vehicle. As a result, the armrest (5) is allowed to move toward the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090045664 - Adjustable pneumatic armrest for a chair: An apparatus and method for providing an adjustable armrest. The adjustable armrest includes a horizontal armrest support, a fixed rear armpad and a slideable front armpad able to translate along the horizontal armrest support in a lengthwise direction. The adjustable armrest also includes a vertical member connected to the horizontal... Agent: Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, Sc (zps)

20090045665 - Vehicle seating with foot rest: A passenger seat for a vehicle having a floor includes a footrest positioned forward of a seat bottom. The footrest includes a resilient support surface positioned above the floor for supporting a passenger's feet. The footrest may be an enclosure suspended below the bottom of a forward-positioned seat. In an... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A.

20090045666 - Furniture member attachment system: A furniture member joining system includes a U-shaped fastener having first and second posts extending transversely from a post body. First and second post receiving bight inserts are each engageable with one of a first and second furniture member. The first post is slidably received in the first bight insert... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090045667 - Single frame sling chair: A sling chair includes a back frame member having side rails held in substantially parallel relation by a pair of cross bar members. In one embodiment, the cross bar members are generally curved so as to extend away from the back faces of the side rails, forming a concave back... Agent: Williams Mullen

20090039684 - Collapsible high chair: A collapsible high chair is provided. The collapsible high chair comprises a front frame including a pair of middle front tubes and a substantially U-shaped lower front tube, the pair of middle front tubes and the lower front tube being detachably engaged with each other by fastening devices; and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090039685 - Chair shelter: A collapsible user support coupled to a collapsible, walled shelter. Individual and multi-occupant chairs provide a sling chair having a number of pivoting frame pieces that are trained through grommets at a fabric seat and backrest. An independently collapsible shelter or cover framework includes frame pieces that pivot under tension... Agent: Douglas L. Tschida

20090039686 - Chair seat with mutually moveable parts: The present invention concerns a chair seat (11) with mutually moveable seat parts (1, 5, 6). The seat parts (1, 5, 6) are mutually shiftable in substantially one and the same first plane. The chair seat is particularly adapted to be used as a chair for surgeons.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090039687 - Locking device for seat back: A locking device for a seat back includes release preventing means for preventing the locking device from being unintendedly released by the fact that a second arm portion of a lift lever abuts on a side edge portion of a guide hole of a lock plate to cause the lift... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090039688 - Cushioning medallions, methods of making and methods of using: The present disclosure relates to cushioning medallions, methods of making and methods of using, particularly cushioning medallions comprising a relatively low durometer viscoelastic polymer gel, for use on a bicycle seat.... Agent: Bowditch & Dewey, LLP

20090039689 - Disposable headrest sheet and attachment means: The present invention relates to a disposable head rest sheet with an attachment means suitable for attachment and removal without leaving behind or necessitating having portions of the attachment means left on a transportation seat. It generally comprises a disposable sheet of material such as absorbent non woven cloth that... Agent: Passe' Intellectual Property, LLC

20090039690 - Motor vehicle seat with seat depth adjustment: An adjustable motor vehicle seat with an underframe (20), a seat carrier (28) carried by the underframe (20), a cushion shell (34), a first longitudinal guide (44) being disposed between the seat carrier (28) and the cushion shell (34), and a first drive being provided for adjusting the cushion shell... Agent: Summa, Additon & Ashe, P.A.

20090039692 - High chair with swivel feature and height adjustment: A high chair incorporates a swivel feature and a height adjustment feature that permits the seat member to be positioned to the convenience of the caregiver. The high chair includes an H-shaped base member having a vertical pedestal member that houses a gas cylinder that provides height adjustment for the... Agent: Miller Law Group, PLLC

20090039691 - Vehicle seat rotation apparatus: A rotatable seat mount apparatus is disclosed. A disclosed apparatus includes a seat mount having a locking arm pivotally mounted within the seat mount. A lever is rotatably coupled to the locking arm so that rotation of the lever causes the locking arm to pivot from a first position in... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090039693 - Seating accessory: A seating pad assembly is provided for use by travelers to increase the comfort for a seat on a public transportation vehicle or at a public transit terminal. The seating pad assembly includes a cushion formed from a viscoelastic foam and having dimensions substantially conforming to the dimensions of at... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090039694 - Dental chair headrest: During the treatment of teeth by a dentist or dental specialist the patient's head rests on a headrest. The position of the head towards the caretaker, as well as the comfort of the patient, are very important for a successful treatment. Such comfort is often prevented due to hairstyling that... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090033129 - Snap-on leg rest mechanism for furniture member: A snap-on leg rest mechanism for a furniture member includes a link having an elongated slot and opposed first and second sides. A polymeric bushing is slidably received in the elongated slot. The bushing includes opposed homogenously joined first and second legs elastically displaceable with respect to each other, the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090033130 - Fluid delivery systems for climate controlled seats: A seat portion or a backrest portion of seating assembly comprises a recessed area or wide groove along its exterior surface. The recessed area can be configured to receive a spacer (e.g., spacer fabric, member, module, etc.) that helps maintains the spatial and structural integrity of the recessed area. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090033131 - Vehicle seat trim attachment: A trim material attachment assembly for a seat includes a cushion having first and second sides and an aperture formed therethrough. A trim cover is provided for covering the first side of the seat cushion. A one-piece, integrally molded trim holder includes a central member disposed in the aperture of... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090033132 - Child restraint with swiveling juvenile seat having a seat-anchor guide channel: A child restraint includes a seat support and a juvenile seat mounted to swivel about an axis on the seat support. The seat support is adapted to set on a vehicle seat.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090033133 - Child swing and jumper apparatus and methods of operating the same: Child entertainment apparatus and methods of operating the same are disclosed. An example child entertainment apparatus includes a frame and a support suspended for swinging movement relative to the frame. The support is elastically elongatable. A child seat is carried by the support and thus is able to swing and... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090033134 - Device for adjusting the seat depth of a motor vehicle seat: A device for adjusting the seat depth of a motor vehicle seat is provided. The device comprising a seat depth adjustment part which is movable relative to a seat lower part of the motor vehicle seat substantially in the direction of travel, an adjusting unit for the seat depth adjustment... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090033135 - Guide device for the axial sliding of a telescopic element with respect to a fixed element: A guide device for the axial sliding of a first telescopic element, in particular connected to the seat-part of a seat, with respect to a second fixed element, in particular connected to the base of the seat, wherein the second fixed element comprises a first profile shaped so as to... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg, LLP

20090033136 - Vehicle seat: The invention relates to a vehicle seat wherein the vehicle seat includes a back rest frame and a seat frame, which can be fastened to each other via a fitting. During assembly, mutually corresponding fastening points on the fitting and on at least one of the frame parts are brought... Agent: King & Spalding

20090033137 - Vehicle seat with adjustable head restraint: A vehicle seat is disclosed with a seat bottom and a seat back. A guide is pivotally mounted to a frame of the seat back. A head restraint extends from the seat back and is mounted to the guide for translation along the guide at a first pivotal position of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20090033138 - Lock apparatus of seat for vehicle: A lock apparatus of a seat for a vehicle includes a striker, a base including a first groove portion, a hook including a second groove portion and pivoting between a lock position and an unlock position, a pawl restraining a pivotal movement of the hook towards the unlock position while... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090033139 - Adjustable arm rest for chair: An adjustable armrest assembly for a chair includes a mounting member connected to the chair. The mounting member has an upper base. A first horizontal slide element is slidably mounted to the upper base and is adjustably slidable in a first direction with respect to the upper base. The first... Agent: Faegre & Benson, LLP Patent Docketing