Patents Assigned to La-Z-Boy Incorporated
  • Publication number: 20200352333
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a base frame, a chaise seat bottom frame, and a seatback frame. The chaise seat bottom frame is supported by the base frame and is movable relative to the base frame between first and second positions. The chaise seat bottom frame includes an upper-leg-supporting portion and a lower-leg-supporting portion that are fixed to each other. The lower-leg-supporting portion may support an occupant's lower legs in an extended position relative to the occupant's upper legs. The seatback frame may be supported by the base frame and may be movable relative to the base frame and the chaise seat bottom frame between upright and reclined positions. Movement of the seatback frame from the upright position to the reclined position causes movement of the chaise seat bottom frame upward and forward relative to an aft end of the base frame from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry P. LAPOINTE, John J. BRYSON, Jason D. RAINS, Mark D. MCCLUNG
  • Patent number: 10820708
    Abstract: A furniture member includes a base frame and a seat assembly supported by the base frame. The seat assembly includes a seat frame, a seat bottom, a seatback and a legrest. The legrest is movable relative to the base frame and seat frame between a retracted position and an extended position. The furniture member further includes a legrest mechanism attached to the legrest and the seat frame and driven by a drive rod configured to move the legrest between the retracted and extended positions in response to rotation of the drive rod. A wall-proximity mechanism is configured to translate the seat frame forward relative to the base frame. A trigger release mechanism is operable between a locked position in which a trigger limits rotation of the drive rod and a released position in which the trigger permits rotation of the drive rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry P. LaPointe, Chad E. Adams, Gerald G. Stotz
  • Publication number: 20200315043
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a base frame, a seat assembly, a motor, and a circuit board assembly. The seat assembly is supported by the base frame. The motor is operable to drive at least one component of the seat assembly. The circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an enclosure. The circuit board is housed within the enclosure and is in communication with the motor. The enclosure may include a body, a first clip attached to the body, and a second clip attached to the body. The first and second clips may be resiliently flexible and may removably engage a beam of the seat assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Jaime A. MCPHERSON, Jason D. Rains, Jason M. Baker
  • Publication number: 20200305609
    Abstract: A kit of components is provided for manufacturing a plurality of furniture members. The kit may include first and second armrest frames, a mounting cradle, a remote control device, an adaptor insert, and a control panel. The first armrest frame may include a first armrest panel having a first opening formed therein. The mounting cradle may include a first housing received through the first opening and engaging the first armrest panel. The remote control device may be removably received in the mounting cradle. The second armrest frame may include a second armrest panel having a second opening formed therein. The second opening may be identical to the first opening. The adaptor insert may be partially received through the second opening and may engage the second armrest panel. The adaptor insert may include a third opening. The control panel may include a second housing received through the third opening and engaging the adaptor insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason D. RAINS, Christopher A. LARSEN, Mark D. MCCLUNG, Jason M. BAKER
  • Patent number: 10779653
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a base frame and a seat assembly mounted on the base frame. The seat assembly may include a seat frame, a seatback, a seat bottom, and a legrest mechanism. The legrest mechanism may be mounted to the seat frame and attached to a legrest platform. The legrest mechanism may include a drive rod coupled to a pantograph linkage that is movable relative to the seat frame between retracted and extended positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry P. LaPointe, Michael R. Mero
  • Patent number: 10750870
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a stationary frame assembly and a seat bottom assembly. The stationary frame assembly may include a stationary base frame and a stationary seatback frame that is fixed relative to the base frame. The seat bottom assembly may be supported by the base frame and movable relative to the base frame and the seatback frame between a first position and a second position. The seatback frame is disposed vertically higher than the base frame and the seat bottom assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard E. Marshall, Eugene O. Cole, II, Chandrasekar Ramasubramanian, Stephen Brown, Jason Rains, Jason Bryson
  • Publication number: 20200138198
    Abstract: A seating or furniture assembly may include a seat bottom, a seatback, and a lumbar adjustment assembly. The seatback is disposed adjacent the seat bottom and includes a seatback frame. The lumbar adjustment assembly may be mounted to the seatback frame and may include a rail, a threaded rod disposed within the rail, a first slider block slidably engaging the rail, a second slider block slidably engaging the rail, a lumbar pad, and a plurality of links connecting the lumbar pad to the first and second slider blocks. The threaded rod may include a first threaded section having threads with a first handedness and a second threaded section having threads with a second handedness that is opposite the first handedness. The first slider block may threadably engage the first threaded section. The second slider block may threadably engage the second threaded section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Brandon BUCHOLZ, Alexander M. HEGEDUS
  • Patent number: 10568428
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a stationary frame assembly and a seatback cushion. The stationary frame assembly may include a stationary base frame, a pair of stationary armrest frames and a stationary seatback frame that is fixed relative to the stationary base frame and the stationary armrest frames. The seatback cushion may include upholstery attached to at least one of the armrest frames. The upholstery may include a portion disposed between the at least one of the armrest frames and the seatback cushion. The portion of the upholstery may be expandable to allow movement of the seatback cushion relative to the stationary base frame, the stationary armrest frames and the stationary seatback frame between an upright position and a reclined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: LA-Z-BOY INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Richard E. Marshall, Eugene O. Cole, II, Chandrasekar Ramasubramanian, Stephen Brown, Jason Rains, Jason Bryson
  • Patent number: 10561244
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a base assembly, a seat assembly, a tilt mechanism, and a recliner actuator. The seat assembly includes a seat bottom, a seatback, and a seat base frame. The seat base frame includes armrest members. The tilt mechanism includes a tilt actuator attached to the base assembly and a plurality of links. The tilt mechanism moves the seat bottom, seatback and seat base frame relative to the base assembly between upright and rearward tilt positions. The recline actuator is mounted to the seat base frame and the seat bottom and moves the seat bottom relative to the armrest members between forward and rearward positions. Movement of the seat bottom between the forward and rearward positions causes movement of the seatback relative to the seat bottom between reclined and non-reclined positions. The recline actuator and the tilt actuator are operable independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry P. Lapointe, Chad E. Adams, Gerald G. Stotz
  • Patent number: 10537178
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a stationary seatback frame, a seat bottom assembly, a legrest mechanism, and a backrest support spring. The seat bottom assembly is movable relative to the seatback frame between a nominal position and a tilt position. The legrest mechanism is movable among a retracted position, a first extended position and a second extended position. A portion of the legrest mechanism contacts the seat bottom assembly when the legrest mechanism is in the first extended position and pushes the seat bottom assembly from the nominal position to the tilt position as the legrest mechanism moves from the first extended position to the second extended position. The backrest support spring includes a first end attached to the seatback frame and a second end attached to the seat bottom assembly and movable with the seat bottom assembly relative to the seatback frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard E. Marshall, Eugene O. Cole, II, Chandrasekar Ramasubramanian, Stephen Andrew Brown, Jason Rains, Jason Bryson
  • Patent number: 10537177
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a seat base frame, a seat bottom, and a seatback. The seat bottom may be attached to the seat base frame. The seatback may be attached to the seat base frame and may include a seatback frame and a seat-depth-adjustment mechanism. The seat-depth-adjustment mechanism may include a backrest support member and a seat-depth-adjustment actuator. The seat-depth-adjustment actuator may be mounted to the seatback frame and may be drivingly coupled to the backrest support member to move the backrest support member relative to the seatback frame and the seat bottom between a retracted position and an extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry P. Lapointe, Chad E. Adams, Gerald G. Stotz
  • Patent number: 10524574
    Abstract: A furniture member includes a base frame, a seat assembly, a motor assembly, a legrest mechanism and a wall-proximity mechanism. The seat assembly is supported by the base frame and includes a seat frame, a seat bottom, a seat back and a legrest. The legrest is movable between a retracted position and an extended position. The seat back is movable between an upright position and a reclined position. The motor assembly includes a draw bar that moves along a motor extrusion housing from an initial position to a first position and to a second position. The legrest mechanism is driven by the draw bar to move the legrest between the retracted and extended positions. The wall-proximity mechanism is driven by the draw bar to translate the seat frame forward relative to the base frame in response to movement of the draw bar from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry P. LaPointe, Chad E. Adams, Gerald G. Stotz
  • Patent number: 10524575
    Abstract: A rocking furniture member may include a base frame, a seat assembly, a legrest mechanism, and a pawl assembly. The seat assembly may include a ratchet rack having a plurality of teeth. The pawl assembly may include a support link, a pawl arm, and an actuation link. The support link is rotatably coupled to the base frame. The pawl arm is rotatably attached to the support link and selectively engages one of the ratchet teeth. The actuation link may be attached to the pawl arm and may be coupled to the legrest mechanism such that movement of the legrest mechanism into the extended position moves the pawl arm into engagement with the ratchet rack and movement of the legrest mechanism toward the retracted position causes rotation of the pawl arm relative to the support link and disengages the pawl arm from the ratchet rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventor: Larry P. LaPointe
  • Patent number: 10512332
    Abstract: A furniture member may include a stationary base frame, a seat bottom frame, a seat bottom cushion, a seatback frame, and a seatback cushion. The base frame may include a forward support, an aft support, and a pair of armrests that extend between the forward support and the aft support. The forward, aft and lateral supports are stationary and fixed relative to each other. The seat bottom frame may be supported by the base frame. An upper end of the seatback frame may be pivotably coupled to the aft support such that the seatback frame is rotatable relative to the aft support and the seat bottom frame between a first position and a second position. A lower end of the seatback cushion has a greater range of motion than an upper end of the seatback cushion when the seatback frame moves between the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry P. LaPointe, Chad E. Adams, Jason Rains, Jason Bryson
  • Patent number: 10512330
    Abstract: A legrest mechanism including a seat base rail, a mechanism rail, a drive assembly, a pivot plate link, a pivot plate, a main drive link, and a parallelogram legrest link assembly. The drive assembly moves the mechanism rail relative to the seat base rail, which drives movement of the parallelogram legrest link assembly between a retracted position and an extended position. The parallelogram legrest link assembly includes first and second legrest links, footrest and legrest drive arms, and a legrest bracket. The main drive link has a pin that is slidingly received in a slot in one of the first legrest link, second legrest link, or main drive link such that movement of the parallelogram legrest link assembly is decoupled from movement of the main drive link when the legrest and/or parallelogram legrest link assembly encounters an obstruction while moving from the extended position to the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventor: Scott Jorbel
  • Patent number: D871810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventor: Haywood Lynn West
  • Patent number: D897968
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert C. Beilfuss, Robert B. Womack, Leslie A. Salenbien, Jaime A. McPherson, Charles D. Rader, Jason M. Baker, Stephen Jones, Maureen Carroll
  • Patent number: D897969
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert C. Beilfuss, Robert B. Womack, Leslie A. Salenbien, Jaime A. McPherson, Charles D. Rader, Jason M. Baker, Stephen Jones, Maureen Carroll
  • Patent number: D897970
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert C. Beilfuss, Robert B. Womack, Leslie A. Salenbien, Jaime A. McPherson, Charles D. Rader, Jason M. Baker, Stephen Jones, Maureen Carroll
  • Patent number: D909315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: La-Z-Boy Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert C. Beilfuss, Robert B. Womack, Leslie A. Salenbien, Jaime A. McPherson, Charles D. Rader, Jason M. Baker, Stephen Jones, Maureen Carroll