Patents Assigned to Aichi Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12604984
    Abstract: A chair includes a backrest and a backrest frame. The backrest is configured to support a back of a user of the chair. The backrest frame supports the backrest. The backrest frame includes a right bar-shaped member, a left bar-shaped member, and an upper bar-shaped member. The right bar-shaped member supports a right side of the backrest. The left bar-shaped member supports a left side of the backrest. The upper bar-shaped member supports an upper side of the backrest. Further, the upper bar-shaped member protrudes so as to be convex toward a rear side, and connects the right bar-shaped member and the left bar-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: 12446698
    Abstract: A holding part is configured to hold a pillar member and includes first and second holding parts each including a part configured to face an outer circumferential surface of the pillar member from a first side at a position different from and spaced from each other. A lock part is configured to be displaced between lock and unlock positions. The lock position brings the lock part into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the pillar member from a second side at a position between the first and second holding parts. The unlock position releases a contact of the lock part with the outer circumferential surface of the pillar member. When the lock part is at the lock position, the first and second holding parts as well as the lock part hold the pillar member, to thereby lock a position of the holding part with respect to the pillar member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hokuto Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11485395
    Abstract: A furniture cart includes a body portion and at least one support portion. The body portion is provided with a pair of first casters that are arranged at one end in a first direction and are spaced apart in a second direction. The support portion is provided with a first inclined portion and a second inclined portion which support furniture. The body portion and the support portion are at least partially located in a region between the pair of first casters in a plan view so as not to interfere with the pair of first casters of a furniture cart located on the upper side when the furniture carts are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: 11382429
    Abstract: A backrest for use in a chair includes a back board arranged in a position to abut a back of a seated person on the chair. A first area that is a laterally central area of the back board has a thickness greater than a thickness of a second area of the back board located closer to each of left and right ends of the back board than the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: 11140989
    Abstract: Provided is a chair including a support member that is at least a seat body and a backrest to support an occupant. The support member includes a composite portion at least a part of an outer periphery of the support member. The composite portion includes a first outer periphery that is a part of the first member and a second outer periphery that is a part of the second member. The first outer periphery and the second outer periphery are arranged to overlap each other in a thickness direction of the support member. In the composite portion, at least a part of the first outer periphery is formed into a thin portion thinner in the thickness direction than a part located on an outside of at least the part of the first outer periphery in the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: 10258161
    Abstract: A chair in one aspect of the present invention comprises a leg body and a seat body. The leg body comprises a support frame that supports the seat body. The seat body comprises a frame body and a sheet-like member stretched across the frame body. The frame body has a positioning member provided on a back surface thereof that positions the seat body to be in a seatable state. An amount of protrusion of the positioning member is defined so that the positioning member contacts the frame body while a lowest part of the sheet-like member at the time the sheet-like member is deformed when a user sits down on the seat body is located above a top of the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Publication number: 20180103762
    Abstract: A chair in one aspect of the present invention comprises a leg body and a seat body. The leg body comprises a support frame that supports the seat body. The seat body comprises a frame body and a sheet-like member stretched across the frame body. The frame body has a positioning member provided on a back surface thereof that positions the seat body to be in a seatable state. An amount of protrusion of the positioning member is defined so that the positioning member contacts the frame body while a lowest part of the sheet-like member at the time the sheet-like member is deformed when a user sits down on the seat body is located above a top of the support frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Aichi Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D883000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D885100
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D885101
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D899155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D899156
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D901205
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D912451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D915116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D915811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D923990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D923992
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D923993
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
  • Patent number: D1116574
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: Aichi Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taku Kumazawa