Patents Assigned to Steelcase Inc.
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Publication number: 20240245219Abstract: A body support structure includes a structural lattice structure having a first stiffness, and a compressive lattice structure supported by the structural lattice structure and having a second stiffness less than the first stiffness. A skin lattice structure is supported by the compressive lattice structure, wherein the skin lattice structure is resistant to shear deformation in response to a normal force and is expandable in a direction transverse to the normal force.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Carl V. Forslund, III, John Hamilton, Kurt R. Heidmann, James Ludwig, Bruce Smith, Aaron Michael Porterfield, Sharon L. Tracy, Paul Noll
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Publication number: 20240237826Abstract: A seating arrangement includes a support shell including a seat portion and a chair back portion each configured to support a seated user, the chair seat portion having a front region and a rear region and the chair back portion having an upper region and a lower region, where the rear region of the seat portion is coupled to the lower region of the chair back portion, a control member including a substantially flexible front support and an attachment point, where the front support engages the support shell in the front region of the seat portion and the control member engages the back portion, and a substantially rigid second support attached to the control member at the attachment point, wherein the control member is an integral, one-piece component including multiple flex regions configured to allow the support shell to move between an upright and reclined position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: James Ludwig, Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt Heidmann, Bruce Michael Smith, Mark Spoelhof
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Publication number: 20240225291Abstract: A seat assembly includes a base and a support platform spaced above the base. The support platform includes a pad having a hinge portion defining a flex region, wherein the pad is pivotable about the flex region. A link has a lower portion coupled to the base and an upper portion coupled to the pad, wherein the upper portion is pivotable with the pad about the flex region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Gordon J. Peterson
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Publication number: 20240224456Abstract: A display support system includes a support rail extending in a first direction and at least one support bar carried by the support rail. The support bar is moveable relative to the support rail in at least the first and second directions. A mounting member is engaged with the support bar, with the mounting member being adapted to be coupled to a display. A method for mounting an array of displays on a wall, and a support cart for mounting a display, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Joseph Iacovoni, Keith Robert Machin, Peter Emmett Mack, II, Mark J. Dinneweth
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Patent number: 12025176Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for a modular fastener assembly for use with multiple panel members. In some embodiments, the fastener assembly can include one or more fasteners (i.e., connectors, clips, etc.). Each of the fasteners can include a channel configured to receive an edge of a panel member, a coupling protrusion extending from an outer surface of the fastener, and an opening formed on another external surface of the fastener configured to be complementarily shaped to the coupling protrusion such that a coupling protrusion on another fastener can be received in the opening to secure two fasteners of the fastener assembly together.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Daniel Paulucci, Yuka Hiyoshi
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Patent number: 12004660Abstract: A backrest includes a primary frame having a pair of laterally spaced first uprights defining a first opening therebetween, a first front surface and a first rear surface. A secondary frame includes a pair of laterally spaced second uprights defining a second opening therebetween, a second rear surface facing the first front surface of the primary frame and a second front surface, wherein the secondary frame is coupled to the primary frame, and wherein at least portions of the first and second openings are aligned. A flexible shell overlies and is coupled to the second front surface of the secondary frame. The flexible shell includes a third rear surface visible through the aligned portions of the first and second openings.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Pascal Rolf Hien, Jeffrey A. Hall, John Colasanti, Michael Yancharas
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Patent number: 12001976Abstract: A collaboration system for sharing digital content among multiple conferees during a conference session, each conferee using a personal computing device including a device display screen and a device processor, includes a wireless receiver, at least a first large common display screen providing a common emissive surface, and at least a first system processor linked to the receiver and the at least a first common display screen. The device and system processors are programmed to cooperate to provide a user interface via each device display screen, each interface including at least a first sharing field and a file queue. The processors also are programmed to visually distinguish, on each user interface, each file added to the session by one conferee from other files added by other conferees. Additionally, the processors are configured to replicate content presented in the at least a first sharing field on the large common emissive surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Robert Poel, Darrin Sculley
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Patent number: 11991474Abstract: A content sharing device for use in controlling content replicated from a video source device on a large common display screen, the content sharing device comprising a housing, a processor supported by the housing, at least first and second control buttons supported by the housing and linked to the processor, a cable linked to the processor and having a distal end opposite the processor, the cable including a connector at the distal end for linking to the video source device, wherein, the processor is programmed to enable content from the video source device linked to the connector to be replicated in a first field on the common display screen upon selection of the first control button and to enable content from the video source device linked to the connector to be replicated in a second field adjacent to and separate from the first field upon selection of the second control button.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Lewis Epstein, Brett Kincaid, Hyun Yoo, Suzanne Stage, Lukas Scherrer, Larry Cheng
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Patent number: 11984739Abstract: A system and methods including workstations for use in office spaces where the workstations include electrical couplers and power distribution systems for coupling portable and rechargeable batteries to the arrangements and delivering electrical charge to affordance devices where battery charging stations are located at different locations throughout a facility and alerts including nearest charging station with fully charged batteries are provided to employees at the stations when battery depletion thresholds are met or where batteries are automatically delivered to facility locations via automated robotic carts when needed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Bruce Smith, Bo Anderson, Karl Jahn Mead, Robert Scheper, Hyun Yoo, Michael Held, Justin Glen Beitzel
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Patent number: 11979959Abstract: A method for facilitating space experiences for at least a first space user and for at least first and second different spaces, the method comprising the steps of storing first and second space experience specifications for the first and second different spaces, respectively, wherein the first and second space experience specifications indicate space affordance settings for the first and second spaces, respectively, sensing a trigger event associated with at least one of the first and second different spaces, where the sensed trigger event is associated with the first space, using the first space experience specification to control the first space affordances and where the sensed trigger event is associated with the second space, using the second space experience specification to control the second space affordances.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Karl J. Mead, Hyun Yoo, Cherie Johnson
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Patent number: 11974676Abstract: A body support structure includes a structural lattice structure having a first stiffness, and a compressive lattice structure supported by the structural lattice structure and having a second stiffness less than the first stiffness. A skin lattice structure is supported by the compressive lattice structure, wherein the skin lattice structure is resistant to shear deformation in response to a normal force and is expandable in a direction transverse to the normal force.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Carl V. Forslund, III, John Hamilton, Kurt R. Heidmann, James Ludwig, Bruce Smith, Aaron Michael Porterfield, Sharon L. Tracy, Paul Noll
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Publication number: 20240138573Abstract: A body support structure includes a base, a seat and a backrest, with the backrest connected to the base with a torsion leaf spring. The torsion leaf spring may be configured with a plurality of fingers, and/or one or more flex regions. One or more struts may be connected between the seat or backrest and the base. In another aspect, the seat and/or backrest may be supported with one or more links that provide a counter-intuitive motion. In another aspect, a link may be coupled to a support with a flexible blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Gary Karsten, Mark Spoelhof
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Patent number: 11963621Abstract: A seating arrangement includes a support shell including a seat portion and a chair back portion each configured to support a seated user, the chair seat portion having a front region and a rear region and the chair back portion having an upper region and a lower region, where the rear region of the seat portion is coupled to the lower region of the chair back portion, a control member including a substantially flexible front support and an attachment point, where the front support engages the support shell in the front region of the seat portion and the control member engages the back portion, and a substantially rigid second support attached to the control member at the attachment point, wherein the control member is an integral, one-piece component including multiple flex regions configured to allow the support shell to move between an upright and reclined position.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: James Ludwig, Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt Heidmann, Bruce Michael Smith, Mark Spoelhof
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Patent number: D1023603Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Ryan D. Vaughan, Jeffrey Simon, Matthew David Remelts
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Patent number: D1023604Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Ryan D. Vaughan, Jeffrey Simon, Matthew David Remelts
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Patent number: D1023605Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Ryan D. Vaughan, Jeffrey Simon, Matthew David Remelts
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Patent number: D1023606Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Ryan D. Vaughan, Jeffrey Simon, Matthew David Remelts
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Patent number: D1023607Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Ryan D. Vaughan, Jeffrey Simon, Matthew David Remelts
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Patent number: D1027517Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Bruce Smith, Brian Snyder, Malachi L. Alvarez
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Patent number: D1029510Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Mark McKenna, Brett Willink, Chris Pottinger, John Mark Allen, Stephanie Weir, Jacquelyn Geda, Nathan McCaughan, Cyril Joseph Mayne, Ramsey Carter, Colton Grant, Ian Ferguson