Chairs and seats inventions

20090160226 - Headrests for vehicular seats: A headrest for a vehicular seat has a base member, a headrest main body and a cable. The base member has a stay held by a side of a seat back. The headrest main body is movably attached to the base member. The cable is pulled when the headrest main... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090160227 - Cover for vehicle seat handle: A vehicle seat is provided with a seat back having a seating surface for supporting a back of an occupant. The seat back is adapted to be mounted to a vehicle and at least a portion of the seat back has a pivotal connection for movement from an upright position... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20090160228 - Motor vehicle seat with an underframe, a seat carrier and a seat back: A motor vehicle seat having an underframe comprising at least one base and at least one rear rocker, which is connected to the base through a rear pivot axis, a seat carrier carried by the underframe, a seat back connected to the seat carrier, and a drive device. A crash... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Hartford Cityplace I

20090160229 - Vehicle seat apparatus: A vehicle seat apparatus includes a vehicle seat; a swiveling drive unit that swivels the vehicle seat between a frontward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat faces the front of a vehicle and at least one of an outward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the outward... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090160230 - Vehicle seats: A seat may includes a seat base, a seat cover that is capable of being detachably attached to the seat base, a first engagement member that is attached to a circumferential surface of the seat base, a second engagement member that is attached to the seat cover, and a third... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090160231 - Bucket style outdoor swing seat cover: A bucket style outdoor swing seat cover is disclosed. This device provides protection for infants/toddlers against the extremely hot surface generated by the sun on the seat, and the inherent germs left behind on the swing seat from previous use by other infants/toddlers. This device is comprised of a low... Agent: Julie Mccurdy

20090160232 - Child seat and method for monitoring installation of the child seat: A child seat and a method for monitoring installation of the child seat are provided. The child seat includes a child seat frame configured to receive a child occupant. The child seat frame is configured to receive a seat belt webbing for securing the child seat frame to a vehicle... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090160233 - Infant seat for motorcars: An infant seat for motorcars includes anchor being operable to engage a receiving element being provided in the motorcar. The infant seat has a framework fixedly attached to the lower face of the base of the seat and is fitted with the anchor, the anchor being actuated by a pneumatic... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090160234 - Forwardly movable motor vehicle seat: The forwardly movable motor vehicle seat has a seat back (20) and a seat frame with a seat pan. The motor vehicle seat may be moved between a normal position of utilization and a forwardly moved position. An immobilizing device is associated with the seat frame. In particular, the seat... Agent: Summa, Additon & Ashe, P.A.

20090160235 - Head rest device: A head rest device that improves reliability of detecting a head on the basis of a change in capacitance without complicating a wiring structure. A head rest device is provided with a head rest rear portion configured to be supported to a seat back, and a head rest front portion... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090160236 - Contour fitting cushion insert: An air insert is designed for a proper fit into a cushion pelvic loading area that has sloped walls for positioning and properly supporting the human pelvis. The air insert may be segmented, or pre-contoured by the manufacturer, so as to be designed for a proper fit into the PLA.... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090152907 - Apparatus for exchanging driver's seat with passenger's seat: An apparatus for exchanging a driver's seat with a passenger's seat of a vehicle comprises seat bases on which a driver's seat and a passenger's seat are provided, a main body assembly provided between the seats, and a link mechanism for linking the main body assembly to the respective seat... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090152908 - Automotive vehicle seat insert: There is disclosed an insert suitable for use within a seating system of an automotive vehicle.... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20090152909 - Attachment assembly for securing trim material to the padding of a ventilated seat: A ventilated vehicle seat includes one of a seat back and a seat cushion having an air transmission channel therethrough. Upholstery covers the one of a seat back and a seat cushion. An air permeable spacer layer is disposed between the one of a seat back and a seat cushion... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090152910 - Entertainment chair: An entertainment chair includes a base, a bottom surface positioned on a lower portion of the base and a seating surface positioned opposite the bottom surface. The entertainment chair further includes a support surface formed or removeably attachable with respect to the bottom surface and permitting 360 degrees of rotation... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20090152911 - Method of making an armrest and the armrest made thereby: A method of making an armrest that is mountable between adjacent left and right passenger seats includes: separately forming two receptacle parts by molding a prepreg in a first mold assembly, the receptacle parts being adapted to hold personal objects and each having a looped wall surrounding a slot; forming... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20090152912 - Cycle saddle structure: A cycle saddle structure comprising a base and a container is provided. The base has a front crotch portion and a rear supporting portion. The container is adapted to slide on the bottom portion of the rear supporting portion between an open position and a closed position with respect to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090152913 - Child restraint apparatus for vehicle: A child restraint apparatus relates to holding a child within a vehicle interior. The apparatus has a body with an internal area for receiving a child. An energy absorbing member extends in use over at least part of an external surface of the body. This energy absorbing member faces away... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A.

20090152914 - Safety strap set for preventing toddlers from climbing on a chair: A child-safety attachment device is adapted to maintain a self-standing chair secure to a self-standing surface or table such that the seat of the chair is unable to be used by a child as a climbing tool and contains two attachment sets, each comprising a surface attachment part, a length... Agent: Patricia M. Costanzo Pats Pending

20090152916 - Seat subportion adjustable in relative height and/or angle and backrest adjustable in shape: A seat of an apparatus, in one example, comprises a front subportion and a rear subportion that is adjustable in height and/or angle relative to the front subportion. A backrest of the apparatus, in one example, is adjustable in shape. Based on a manipulation of adjustments, a subportion of the... Agent: Cherskov & Flaynik

20090152915 - Treatment chair and methods: A chair having a seat cushion with a seating surface. The chair has a frame to support the seat cushion. The chair also has a backrest. The backrest has a backrest with a lower end adjacent to the seat cushion. The lower end of the backrest can also be supported... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090152917 - Apparatus, system, and method for tuneful attenuation: An apparatus, system, and method for tuneful attenuation include at least one of speaker(s) and shaker(s) supported in a chair in a manner that enables at least one of resonance and even attenuation. In one embodiment, a shaker is mounted in a seat bottom by an attenuation member that includes... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090152918 - Child seat, ventilation portion structure of article and cover of article comprising the ventilation portion structure, and article for child: In a child seat which has a seat portion and a back portion and in which the back portion provided with a shoulder belt guide for guiding a shoulder belt of a seat belt of a vehicle from the shoulder to the chest of a sitter, the child seat is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090152919 - Ganging device for folding chair: A ganging device for connecting folding chairs and enlarging a gap between chairs includes a main member, a slot fastener and a knob fastener. A first frame side of the main member includes a fixing element and an engaging protrusion, and a second frame side of the main member includes... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090152920 - Seat-depth adjustable vehicle seat with a first seat part and a second seat part: The seat depth adjustable motor vehicle seat comprises a first seat part, a second seat part and a longitudinal adjustment device interposed between the first seat part and the second seat part and allowing for displacement movement in a first seat direction of the first seat part relative to the... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Hartford Cityplace I

20090152921 - Tilt mechanism for a chair: A tilt mechanism provides improved coordination in the motions of a chair seat and a chair back during chair tilt. In one aspect, the tilt mechanism includes a seat base, a back bracket, a back support bar, a guide track and a back follower member. The seat base is slidably... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090152922 - Slide with positionable chair and a repositioning attachment: One embodiment of the present invention may include a support assembly adapted to be connected to an object for moving the object along a track, including a sled base having a track defined along at least a portion of its length, and an attachment support for supporting an object having... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090152923 - Locking apparatus for folding headrest for vehicles: A locking apparatus includes a support bracket, a latch, a rotating member and a link unit. The support bracket is fastened to a headrest housing and has therein a locking slot, into which a striker of a seat back frame is removably inserted. The latch is coupled to the support... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090152924 - Headrest for vehicle: The present invention discloses a headrest for a vehicle which is constructed in such a way that a headrest boy 100 of the headrest 1 can be folded by releasing the locking state with a fixed member 70 fixed on the horizontal frame portion 12 of the mounting frame 10... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090152925 - Electromotive headrest folding apparatus for vehicles: An electromotive headrest folding apparatus includes a rotating shaft, a rotary member, a vertical moving unit and a locking unit. The rotating shaft is coupled at opposite ends thereof to a seat back frame so as to be rotatable, and is provided with a striker. The rotary member is mounted... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090152926 - Width control device of armrest for vehicles: Disclosed herein is a width control device which automatically controls the width of an armrest, provided in a seat of a vehicle, in response to the body type of a passenger, thus enabling the passenger to sit in a comfortable position.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090152927 - Footrest mounting arrangement for an article of furniture: An article of seating furniture includes a base, a seat and a back. The back includes a reclining mechanism. The seat is interconnected with the reclining mechanism such that reclining movement of the back moves the seat forwardly and upwardly. When the back is fully reclined and the seat is... Agent: Andrew S. Mcconnell Boyle, Fredrickson, Newholm, Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20090152928 - Seatback frame for vehicles: A seatback frame for vehicles has a lower cross member that prevents a back pad and a recliner hinge shaft from interfering with each other. The seatback frame includes a back frame and a lower cross member. The lower cross member includes a reinforcing part and a hinge-shaft cover. The... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090152929 - Seatback frame structure for vehicles: A seatback frame structure is provided for the manufacture of a seat of a vehicle. The seatback frame structure includes a pair of side brackets and an upper cross member. The side brackets are coupled at lower ends thereof to left and right sides of a seat frame. The upper... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090152930 - Seating apparatus with reclining movement: The invention provides a seating apparatus having a reclining movement with a corresponding seat lift movement. The apparatus further provides a seating support surface having increased comfort comprising a shaped diaphragm with a series of calculated openings provided throughout.... Agent: Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P.

20090152931 - Cushion spring retaining structure: The present invention can include a seat frame including a claw member, a spring member having a first end and a second end both connected to the frame, wherein the first end is retainable in the claw member, also the first end includes a first and second support member positioned... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090152932 - Assisting passengers to sleep while sitting: A method and an apparatus for helping a user rest and sleep while in an upright sitting position on a seat by providing vertical and horizontal support to the user's upper body and head. The method consists of providing a seat add-on and fitting an adjustable vest that can cling... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090152933 - Seat belt tension sensor assembly: Described herein is a seat belt tension sensor assembly that includes an anchor plate adapted to be secured to an object, a housing associated with and movable with respect to the anchor plate, wherein the housing defines a cavity therein, and a sense element disposed in the cavity. The sense... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20090146466 - Foldable highchair: A foldable highchair includes a chair frame, a seat unit mounted on the chair frame, and a latch unit provided on the chair frame. The chair frame is in a form of a four-link mechanism, and is convertible between upright and collapsed states. The chair frame includes a base, a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090146467 - Chair: A chair may include a seat, a chair back and a frame that may be connected to the seat and/or chair back. The chair back and the frame may include engaging portions and/or receiving portions that may be sized and configured to contact, abut, engage and/or interlock with each other... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090146468 - Reclining lounge chair: An improved reclining lounge chair is described, which comprises a footrest that is pivotally connected to a center seat member by a footrest attachment axle, and in which the footrest position is controlled by a footrest lift mechanism. While the lounge chair is its non-reclined upright position the footrest is... Agent: Smartpat PLC

20090146469 - Convertible seat with air mattress: A convertible seat that has both a seat and bed position. The convertible seat includes a stationary bed section and folding bed section that pivots relative to the stationary bed section. The folding bed section serves as the seating surface when the seat is in the seat position and the... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20090146470 - Vehicle seat: A vehicle seat including a seat back and a seat bottom. The seat bottom includes a seat cushion covered by a trim covering material. The trim covering material is connected to a support structure embedded in the seat cushion. An electrically powered auxiliary device is located between the seat cushion... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090146471 - Method and apparatus for bicycle seat adjustment: In the method of adjustment a bicycle seat assembly the driver is rotatable in the first and second directions. Upon rotating the driver in the first direction, tightening of the connection between the bicycle seat, the seat post and the adjusting member causes simultaneous adjustment of the wedge sub-assembly provided... Agent: Silber & Fridman

20090146472 - Layered seating with directed deflection for child seat and occupant safety: A seat cushion for a vehicle seat having attachment members for selectively attaching a child seat thereto includes a first layer having a first hardness and a second layer having a second hardness. The second layer is less hard than the first layer and defines a support surface upon which... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090146474 - System and device for monitoring and assisting human gross motor skills: A system includes a lift chair having sensors embedded therein to determine various factors such as the amount of pressure exerted in various portions of the chair, the activity level of the chair user, whether the chair is occupied and which user is currently occupying the chair, and how much... Agent: Client 21058 C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090146475 - Back support for seat: An orthopedic back support for displacing a person's weight from the lower area of the spine by providing support for the upper torso and for use with a chair or seat having a seat base and a seat back. A flexible fabric cross piece is connected between vertical ancillary support... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090146476 - Chair: A front portion of a seat 2 is connected to a base 6 by a front support link 7 and a first support shaft 8, and a rear portion of the seat 2 is connected to a rocking frame 11 by way of a rear support link 14. The first... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090146477 - Thickness of a seat cushion at the back side of a seat cushion frame: In a seat (10), a seat back (14) tilts forward to be superposed on a seat cushion (20) and thereby the seat (10) is stowed. In this stowage operation, an arm (26) and a cushion main frame (22) are moved forward by a back frame (16), rotating a front link... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090146478 - Reclining adjuster: Reduces backlash and clearance in a thrust direction of a worm when engaging a seat back to more securely prevent the generation of abnormal noise that before. A movable bearing 12 is pressed by cams 21, 22 that are pressing members, when the seat back is stopped at a predetermined... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20090146479 - Seat assembly having an adjustable head restraint assembly: A seat assembly having a headrest for supporting the head of a seat occupant. The seat assembly includes a seat back, a support post disposed on the seat back, a headrest being moveably disposed on the support post, and a latch mechanism moveable between a latched position and an unlatched... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20090146480 - Crushable armrest assembly: An armrest for use with a motorized vehicle is provided comprising first and second substantially opposing surfaces elongated longitudinally along the vehicle's interior surface and extending laterally inward therefrom. The armrest also includes a substantially vertical wall portion extending from the inner periphery of the first and second surfaces. The... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090146481 - Seat:

20090146482 - Backrest assembly: A backrest assembly includes a rigid frame having an annular body. A connecting plate is interconnected between left and right sides of the annular body above a bottom side of the annular body. A plurality of supporting plates are interconnected between the connecting plate and the bottom side of the... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia Int''l Patent Office Of Bang Shia

20090146483 - Pieces for skin members of vehicular seats and methods of manufacturing the same: A piece for a skin member of a vehicular seat has a base member and a leather laminated to the base member. The base member has a cushion having elastic properties and a base cloth adhered to the cushion. The base member and the leather include an adhering portion bonded... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090146484 - Chair sled locking mechanism for gaming device: Provided in embodiments of the present invention is a chair sled locking mechanism for use with a gaming device. In one example embodiment, a chair sled includes a sled body having a chair attachment connector disposed at a first end of the sled body and a cavity disposed at a... Agent: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (igt - 26668) Robert B. Reeser, Iii

20090146485 - Holding structures of vehicular seats for holding an electric wire member: A holding structure of a vehicular seat for holding an electric wire member has a shield. The shield is made of a resin and has a main body that can be integrally formed with a bending portion and a cover portion arranged on an inner side of the main body.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090146486 - Locking device for an adjustment unit of a motor vehcile seat: A locking device for an adjustment unit of a motor vehicle seat having a toothed bar, a locking part cooperating with the toothed bar, a spring that abuts the locking part and a base part. The locking part comprises at least one tooth for engaging the toothed bar. A mass... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Hartford Cityplace I

20090146487 - Motor vehicle seat with a seat back and a belt deflector: The seat back of a motor vehicle seat has a shoulder belt and a belt deflector. The belt deflector is associated with the seat back, is disposed in the region of an upper edge of the seat back and forms a deflection edge in which the shoulder belt is deflected... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Hartford Cityplace I

20090140556 - Collapsible bench or seating with canopy: A collapsible bench and canopy has a seat frame made up of a plurality of crossing pairs of seat tubes pivotally connected to each other supporting a fabric seat. A fabric back rest is supported by back tubes attached to the seat frame and a canopy is supported by the... Agent: Daniels Patent Law PLLC

20090140557 - Foldable table-chair assembly: A foldable table-chair assembly and the frame thereof. The frame has a table frame and four integral chair frames. A table panel is able to be detachably attached on the table frame. The table panel has a plurality of hard sub-panels which are foldably connected together and a covering containing... Agent: Wilson Wu

20090140558 - Vehicle seat: A vehicle seat has a back rest, a head restraint, which is adjustable in the height and which has a head cushion, and a ventilation device, whose exhaust vent for blowing out a warm airflow is arranged on the upper side of the back rest. The vehicle seat that has... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090140559 - Rear-seat occupant protection apparatus: Disclosed is a rear-seat occupant protection apparatus, which is designed to protect, during a frontal collision of a vehicle, a rear-seat occupant (B) seated in a rear seat (5) located behind a front seat (3) equipped with a seat belt (7) having a load limiter function. The rear-seat occupant protection... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090140560 - Headrest device for active headrest: The active headrest of the invention includes individual parts provided in a seat back. The individual parts include a lower unit which operates by an impact given to a frame, a wire which elevates/lowers inside the seat back linked to the lower unit, a solenoid to which the wire is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090140561 - Vehicle mounted printer station: The present invention relates to a vehicle mounted printer station made up of a printer secured to a support surface tray that includes an adaptor capable of attaching the tray and printer to the top of a vehicle seat. The support surface is preferably a rectangular shaped plate with front,... Agent: Schwartz Law Firm. , P.C.

20090140562 - Combined deodorizing and air freshening vehicle seat cushion and associated method: A combined deodorizing and air freshening vehicle seat cushion for removing odors and releasing a pleasant aroma in a vehicle may include primary bodies oriented in a side-by-side configuration. The primary bodies may include a predetermined quantity of a deodorizing agent contained within an internal cavity of the primary bodies... Agent: Ashkan Najafi, P.A.

20090140563 - Disposable automobile seat cover and method of use thereof: A disposable automobile seat cover having a cover portion to enclose a portion of an automobile seat and an elastic band around the perimeter of the cover portion. The seat cover is made from a thin disposable light filtering material to provide protection from fading and may be padded to... Agent: Williamson Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090140564 - Swivel chair: A swivel chair includes a seat unit and a base unit. The seat unit includes a downwardly extending post. The base unit includes: a base member; a sleeve member that extends upwardly from the base member, that surrounds the post of the seat unit, and that has a top end... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090140565 - Heavy duty reclining mechanism for vehicle seats: A manual vehicle seat reclining mechanism and seat assembly incorporating the reclining mechanism is disclosed. A guide plate and a pivotal plate are assembled together and disposed between the seat base and seat back. A cam is biased by a spring to hold locking elements in engagement with the pivotal... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20090140566 - Circular regulation system: Circular regulation system, which may be fixed in a discrete number of positions, characterized in that it comprises a train of three gears (1, 2 and 3) of identical modulus, with a fixed input gear (1), a transmission gear (2) that meshes with the input gear (1), and an output... Agent: Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason, P.c

20090140567 - Multi-adjustable swivel chair with back and knee supports: One embodiment of a chair mounted on a swiveling, telescoping column (14) supported by a five-legged base (10), each with its own caster (12). A seat (16) is attached to the top of the swiveling column. A knee support assembly (34) is suspended from the seat base (32). The seat... Agent: Karl S. Weiss

20090140568 - Body support structure: A body support structure includes a backrest having a frame and a plurality of laterally spaced strips. Each of the strips extends in a longitudinal direction, with an upper end portion of each of the strips formed in an inverted J-shape. In another aspect, a body support structure includes a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090140569 - Clip for tensioning and attaching trim cover, and vehicle cover seat: A clip for use in a cushion for a seat is disclosed. The cushion includes a cushioned pad and a trim cover covering the cushioned pad, the cushioned pad having a recess portion and a wire embedded in the cushioned pad so as to be partially exposed to the recess... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman