Patents Examined by David E Allred
  • Anti-misoperation combined dining chair for children
    Patent number: 11317735
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an anti-misoperation combined dining chair for children. The dining chair comprises a seat and a tabletop which are arranged in sequence on a supporting component. The support component comprises four No. 1 supporting tubes and No. 2 supporting tubes. One end of each of the four No. 1 supporting tubes is respectively inserted into one of four corners of the seat, and the other end of each of the four No. 1 supporting tubes is internally provided with a corresponding No. 2 supporting tube in an inserting manner respectively. The tabletop is arranged at peripheries of the No. 2 supporting tubes in a sleeved manner and is connected with the No. 1 supporting tubes and the No. 2 supporting tubes through locking mechanisms respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventor: Pao-Hsien Cheng
  • Vehicle seat
    Patent number: 11292372
    Abstract: In a vehicle seat (1), a heater element (40) disposed between the surface of a cushion pad (8) and a skin member (9) includes a pair of main body portions (45-47) and a crossing portion (48, 49) connecting the main body portions to each other, the crossing portion being received in a tuck-in groove (11) formed in the cushion pad and extending through a gap defined between a bottom portion (22) of the tuck-in groove and a tuck-in member (35). The heater element includes a substrate (41) in sheet form, and a heater wire (42) attached to the substrate, and the heater wire in the crossing portion extends in a direction orthogonal to a lengthwise direction of the tuck-in groove in a zigzag pattern, the heater wire including a bent portion (62) of the zigzag pattern located in a bottom region (68) of the tuck-in groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hoshi, Sachio Kobayashi, Yuma Tanabe
  • Vehicle seating assembly
    Patent number: 11272790
    Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat base that has a first heating element. A seat back has a second heating element. A sensor is coupled to the seat base and is configured to obtain a weight data. A user-interface assembly is operably coupled to the first and second heating elements. A controller is in communication with the sensor to receive the weight data. The controller is configured to control the first and second heating elements in response to the weight data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Andrew Amman, Avrokin Surnilla, Nikhitha Bekkanti, John Craig Elson
  • Occupant support
    Patent number: 11273734
    Abstract: An occupant support includes a seat frame and a seat pad coupled to the seat frame. The seat pad includes a cushion member fixed to the seat frame and an outer trim arranged to cover the cushion member. Portions of the outer trim are movable relative to the rest of the occupant support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC
    Inventor: Robert C. Fitzpatrick
  • Suspension fabric seat heating system
    Patent number: 11267380
    Abstract: A suspension fabric seat includes a fabric seat surface formed from a woven fabric material having heating element fibers. The heating element fibers are in electrical communication with a conductor. A carrier is overmolded onto the seat surface. The carrier and the conductor are disposed in a frame and a connector is mounted to the frame in electrical communication with the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Samuel Smith, Manfred Mueller
  • Pumping device for seat of vehicle
    Patent number: 11267373
    Abstract: A pumping device for a seat of a vehicle is proposed. In the pumping device, a spring providing a restoring force to a lever bracket is directly connected to a housing without a separate component, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced and a layout size is reduced in response to removal of the component supporting the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HYUNDAI TRANSYS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Won Kim
  • Systems, methods, and apparatuses for a convertible child booster's seat
    Patent number: 11259650
    Abstract: A booster seat can be configured to be adjusted from a full or home booster configuration to a travel configuration or a backless booster configuration. In the full configuration, the booster seat can include a seat base, a seat shell movably coupled to and configured to recline with respect to the seat base, a seat back removably coupled to the seat shell, and soft goods that cover portions of the seat back and the seat shell. In the travel configuration, for example, the booster seat can include the seat back and soft goods without the seat shell and the seat base. In the backless booster configuration, the booster seat can include the seat base and the seat shell without the seat back (e.g., decoupling the seat back from the seat shell). Multiple modes of the booster seat allows for continued use of the seat as the child grows and when travelling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Graco Children's Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Siu-Lok Tsui, Sarah Elizabeth Congdon-Martin, Brian Scott Kelly, Rachael Auline Knapp, Connie Yuanfang Gu
  • Seating arrangement
    Patent number: 11259637
    Abstract: A seating arrangement includes a base, a back arrangement and a seat arrangement each supported by the base, the back arrangement movable between an upright position and reclined position, the seat arrangement including a stop member, a shell supported on the base and forming at least a portion of the seat arrangement, the shell including a first portion and second portion movable relative to the first portion, the shell configured such that a downward force exerted on the first portion by a seated user forces the back arrangement from the reclined position toward the upright position, and a tilt limiter coupled to the base and configured to engage the stop member at both the upright position and the reclined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Ludwig, Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, William Thomas Johnson, Bruce M. Smith, Mark William Spoelhof
  • Padded bench assembly with height adjustable easel and ridged surface for improved canvas support
    Patent number: 11253065
    Abstract: A padded bench assembly with height adjustable easel and ridged surface provides an elongated frame. The frame supports a canvas at a desired height and slope. The frame also supports an artist, and includes a cushioned seat for the artist to sit on while working on the canvas. The artist bench provides an elongated frame at least 29? long for an artist to sit. The frame has a cushioned seat for artist comfort while sitting and working on canvas. The bench assembly allows for selective positioning of the canvas, at adjustable angles, through height adjustment of a canvas support bar, and selective setting of the edge of the canvas in one of multiple ridges in a ridged canvas support panel. The artist sit at a desired distance from the canvas, and position the canvas at an angle for working on the canvas, while minimizing slippage by the canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Studio Designs Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Maynes
  • Outdoor chair with cushion covers
    Patent number: 11253082
    Abstract: A chair (10) has a chair frame (20) with a seat base (22), a seat cushion (30) sized and adapted for removable placement in the seat base and a chair back (26), attached to the seat base. A cover assembly for use therewith has a web (32) of water-resistant material, with first and second ends (34, 36) and a biased, window-shade type spring roller (50), positioned in the seat base. The first end of the web of water resistant material is attached to the spring roller and the second end of the web of water resistant material is provided with means for removably attaching the second end to the chair frame. In a first, deployed condition, the web of water-resistant material extends across a top surface of the seat cushion; and in a second, non-deployed condition, the web of water-resistant material is rolled onto the biased, window-shade type spring roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventor: Marc Burt
  • Casino chair with sliding base
    Patent number: 11241098
    Abstract: A movable seat such as for use with a gaming device is disclosed and described herein. An example chair includes a chair head assembly and a floorplate assembly. The example chair head assembly is movably affixed to a slide plate in the floorplate assembly to slide the chair head assembly along at least a portion of the floorplate assembly. An example floorplate assembly includes a slide plate and a floorplate. The example slide plate is arranged to receive a support member, and the example slide plate is movably affixed to the floorplate via a track opening along the floorplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Gary Platt Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Waller, Wendell R. Davis
  • Air cushion device and seat with the air cushion device
    Patent number: 11229292
    Abstract: An air cushion device for a seat includes at least one first air cushion and a second air cushion, first and second air inlets, first and second air ducts, and a device preventing the second air duct from being pinched off by a fixing wire of a seat cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Alfmeier Präzision SE
    Inventors: Erich Dörfler, Ronny Gehlmann
  • Seat core material
    Patent number: 11224292
    Abstract: A seat core material having reduced deformation, extremely excellent dimensional accuracy, sense of unity, and strength is thus provided. The frame member and the foamed particle molding are integrated in the seat core material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: JSP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Hashimoto, Katsunori Hisamatsu, Atsuo Takayama
  • System including pocket
    Patent number: 11225328
    Abstract: A system may include a surface, a pocket member, and spring members. The pocket member may have a top portion, a bottom portion, an exterior side, and an interior side. Each spring member may be positioned vertically between the surface and the interior side of the pocket member. Each spring member may have a spring top portion and a spring bottom portion. Each of the spring top portions may be attached to the top portion of the pocket member. Each of the spring bottom portions may be attached to the surface at a location corresponding to a vertical position of the bottom portion of the pocket member. The surface, the pocket member, and the spring members may form a pocket configured to at a given time be one of: open at the top portion of the pocket member, open at the bottom portion of the pocket member, or closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Zurian, Dean Sears, Lazaro Martinez, Richard Kelley
  • Sunshaded swing seat
    Patent number: 11213135
    Abstract: A sunshaded swing seat includes a suspension frame including a main horizontal beam, and a pair of extension members mounted to the main horizontal beam. The pair of extension members forms four tips. Tension supports extend downwardly from the four tips, and each tension support extends downwardly from each tip. A swing seat has a rigid swing seat rim, and the swing seat has a fabric seat body attached to the swing seat rim and forming a seat hollow. A shade has a upper panel mounted over the swing seat. The shade optionally further includes a shade left side panel and a shade right side panel. The shade left side panel has a shade left arc on its lower edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Samuel Chen
  • Seat transit systems and methods
    Patent number: 11197551
    Abstract: A seat skate assembly is configured to be secured to a fitting of a seat assembly. The seat skate assembly includes a pin-retaining guide including a plurality of pin cavities configured to receive and retain one or more pins of the fitting, one or more wheel couplers, and one or more wheel members rotatably coupled to the wheel coupler(s). The wheel member(s) allow the seat assembly to be moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Jody Brooks
  • Flexible headrest assembly
    Patent number: 11192654
    Abstract: Described are passenger seat headrest assemblies and seats including headrest assemblies having a semi-rigid flap fixedly connected with an upper portion of the seat back or headrest assembly at a first location and movably connected with the seat back or headrest assembly at a receiving element separated from the first location. The distance of the movable connection from the first location can be adjusted to cause the flexible headrest assembly to flex outward from the seat to provide a greater or lesser degree of support for a passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Oscar Ruiz Lara, Arthur Glain
  • Child safety seat
    Patent number: 11186209
    Abstract: The invention relates to a child safety seat (100) comprising a seat base (102) and a seat back (104), the child safety seat (100) being convertible between a backless booster configuration and a highback booster configuration, in the backless booster configuration a first side (106) of the seat back (104) providing the sitting area (114) of the seat and a second side (108) of the seat back (104) being opposite to the seat base (102), the first side (106) being opposite to the second side (108), in the highback booster configuration the seat base (102) providing the sitting area (114) of the seat and the second side of the seat back (104) providing a back rest of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: BRITAX ROMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Häußler, Michael Fürstenberg
  • Seat positioning system for a wheelchair
    Patent number: 11173081
    Abstract: A seat positioning system includes a base frame having a pair of forward slots and a pair of rear slots, and a seat frame having a front end and a back end. The seat frame is coupled to the base frame and movable relative to the base frame. A first pair of linkages is slideably coupled to the pair of forward slots and connects the frames. A first pair of locking devices has a locked configuration adapted to prevent the first pair of linkages from sliding relative to the pair of forward slots and an unlocked configuration adapted to allow the first pair of linkages to slide relative to the pair of forward slots. A second pair of linkages slideably is coupled to the pair of rear slots and connects the frames. An actuator is pivotally connected to both the seat frame and the base frame and is configured to extend and contract to move the seat frame relative to the base frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: PRIDE MOBILITY PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Mulhern, Stephen J. Antonishak
  • Ventilated child car seat system
    Patent number: 11173817
    Abstract: A ventilated child car seat system. The system includes a child car seat attachable to a base, which is securable to a seat of a vehicle. The seat comprises a cushioned seat portion affixed to a frame. The frame includes a canopy and a handle affixed thereto. The frame includes several pluralities of air vents positioned thereon, and the base also includes several pluralities of air vents positioned thereon. The air vents facilitate air flow therethrough for cooling a baby laying therein, and in this manner the system prevents the baby from overheating in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Erica Ferrell