Chairs and seats inventions 10/09

20090243345 - Universal hunting swivel chair: The invention is a compact swivel chair that folds up. Keeps the hunter off the ground and will be able to move freely and quietly without getting up. Made for all types of hunting. The universal hunting chair is made light weight, and easy to carry. The legs extend out... Agent: Stacy Ryan Carter

20090243346 - Foldable swivel stool: A foldable swivel stool has a frame and a cushion attached to and supported by the frame. The frame has a leg frame and a seat frame supported by leg frame. The leg frame has four top connectors, four feet, and four pairs of legs each of which are pivoted... Agent: Wilson Wu

20090243347 - Vehicle seat: A vehicle seat and head restraint assembly is disclosed in which the configuration of the seat back is automatically adjusted as the position of the head rest is changed. Upon lowering the head restraint, a forwardly directed face of the seat back is urged outward to thereby decrease a torso... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090243348 - Adjustable ergonomic chair: An ergonomic task chair having a front and a rear, including a laterally extending seat having a front and a rear, a back brace disposed above the rear of the seat, and a knee support disposed in the front of the chair, wherein the back brace and the knee support... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20090243368 - Rocking reclining chair: A furniture item includes a support member and a rotatably pinned mechanism operable in rocking and reclining motions. The mechanism includes first and second side plates; a first pair of forward link members each rotatably connected to one of the side plates; a pantograph linkage set connected to the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090243349 - Adjustable height hook on high chair: A hook on high chair that includes a base unit that engages the lip of a table top and a seat unit that engages a seat for a child. The base unit and seat unit slide relative to each other such that the seat of the seat unit is adjustable... Agent: Robert J Jacobson Pa

20090243350 - Vehicle seat with a temperature control unit: A vehicle seat with a temperature control unit is composed of a plurality of ditches installed on a surface of a seat pad covered with the second plate having a vent and a divergence department on a surface of a seat pad covered with the first plate, wherein the presence... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090243351 - Dual function lift handle for infant seat carrier: An infant swing has a base member supported by hanger members for reciprocal movement. The base member is formed with an upwardly extending mounting protrusion that nests into a mating receiver structure formed on the bottom of the seat carrier. A latch mechanism carried by the seat carrier is selectively... Agent: Miller Law Group, PLLC

20090243352 - Secure herringbone arrangement for the armrest of a seat, seat and two seat assembly provided with such an arrangement: In herringbone seats of the prior art, armrests on the closed angle side form an obstacle for the passengers in the seat in case of a shock, since the latter are generally projected along the axis of the vehicle and thus towards the armrest thus creating a high risk of... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20090243353 - Seat apparatus: A seat apparatus includes a seat adapted to be arranged on a floor of a vehicle, a motor driving the seat to move, and a control unit supplying electric power to the motor by controlling a duty ratio with duty cycle control. The control unit determines an initial start-up time... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090243354 - Active head restraint for a vehicle seat: An active head restraint system is disclosed with an actuator, a sensor, and a controller. The controller receives an impact signal from a triggering element, receives the position of an occupant's head, actuates the head restraint to move towards the occupant's head, and controls actuation to optimize head restraint movement... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20090243355 - Crash-active system of a vehicle: In the case of a crash-active system of a vehicle, in particular of a vehicle seat, with a support (5), an impact element (11) which is arranged on said support (5) in a manner such that it is movable relative thereto, in particular is coupled to the support (5) by... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20090243356 - Seat control device: A seat control device has a first input unit for performing an operation of moving a first seat to a front side or a back side, a first drive control unit for moving the first seat to the front side or the back side based on an output of the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090243357 - Seat apparatus for vehicle: A seat for a vehicle includes: a seat cushion frame, adapted to be mounted to a vehicle floor side to rotate around a front end portion relative to a vehicle floor and selectively operated to be in a raised state or in a used state relative to the vehicle floor;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090243358 - Vehicle seating: In an example embodiment, a vehicle seating arrangement includes a fore-facing lower seat convertible between a sitting position and a lie flat sleeping position in a lower horizontal plane, an aft-facing lower seat convertible between a sitting position and a lie flat sleeping position in the lower horizontal plane, and... Agent: Lewinski Law Group LLC

20090243359 - Vehicle seat: A vehicle seat is provided with: a rotation lock mechanism for inhibiting or permitting rotation of the both support arms placed at a fixed position relative to base frames and a support arm operation mechanism for actuating the rotation lock mechanism by tilting of a backrest. In the vehicle seat,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090243360 - Seat reclining mechanism: Disclosed is a seat reclining mechanism, which is designed to be mounted to a seat cushion and a seat back so as to allow the seat back to be reclined. The seat reclining mechanism comprises a guide bracket and an internal gear member coupled to the guide bracket in a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090243361 - Seat reclining mechanism: A seat reclining mechanism comprises a guide bracket, and an internal gear member coupled to the guide bracket in a rotatable manner about a rotation axis thereof with respect to the guide bracket. A forwardmost-inclination stopper protrusion and a rearwardmost-inclination stopper protrusion are provided on either one of the guide... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090243362 - Vehicle seat assembly capable of performing easy entry with full memory: A vehicle seat assembly capable of performing an easy entry function having a seat bottom, a seat back pivotal with respect to the seat bottom, and a recliner mechanism for controlling pivotal motion of the seat back and a recliner mechanism actuator subassembly having a base member, a memory ring... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20090243363 - Seat reclining mechanism: A seat reclining mechanism comprises a guide bracket, an internal gear member coupled to the guide bracket in a rotatable manner about a rotation axis thereof with respect to the guide bracket, a plurality of lock gear members disposed between the guide bracket and the internal gear member, and a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090243364 - Adjustable head restraint system for an automotive vehicle seat: A support structure of a head restraint system for an automotive vehicle seat includes an actuator configured to be actuated by an occupant. A locking arrangement is disposable within a back of the vehicle seat and is configured to selectively secure the support structure relative to the back of the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20090243365 - Actively ventilated vehicle seat: An actively ventilated vehicle seat includes a lower air-impermeable seat cushion or backrest part, an air-permeable intermediate layer made of a spacer fabric and an upholstered cover. The vehicle seat is divided into upholstered areas which are delimited from each other by seams anchored at the air-impermeable seat cushion. Air... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090243366 - Safety system for a seat of a ski lift facility and method for implementing same: A safety system for a chair (10) of a mechanical lift installation comprises magnetic means able to occupy a retaining position of a passenger (17) embarked on said chair (10) when the chair (10) is outside the unloading areas, and a released position when passing in an unloading area. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090243367 - Seat belt winding method, seat belt retractor, and seat belt apparatus: [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] A seat belt winding method comprises a start signal detecting step (S1) for detecting a buckle release signal, a starting step (S2) for actuating a motor based on a buckle release signal, an overload detecting step (S3) for detecting overload on the motor, a stopping... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500