Patents by Inventor Larry D. Shultz

Larry D. Shultz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Kinematic rotating-tilting mechanism
    Patent number: 7775944
    Abstract: A kinematic rotating-tilting mechanism (10) that consists of six major elements: a housing (12), a housing flange assembly (42), a platform flange assembly (70), a platform base (90), a resilient section (110) and an angled shaft (120). The housing (12) includes an upper end (18) having a cover (20) to which is attached the housing flange assembly (42), and attached to the lower surface (98) of the platform (90) is the platform flange assembly (70). The shaft (120) has a lower vertical section (122) that is rotatably attached to the housing flange assembly (42), and an upper angled section (126) that is rotatably attached to the platform flange assembly (70). The platform base (90) has an upper surface (96) to which is attached a resilient section (110). A person who is located on the resilient section (110) can produce torque by shifting their body weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Larry D. Shultz
  • Bed apparatus having multidirectional movement
    Patent number: 5228155
    Abstract: A multi-tilting movement platform that periodically and gradually tilts a platform supporting a person's body, that platform tilting periodically and gradually, side to side and head to foot; the side tilt following the head tilt and preceding the foot tilt, and so on. The apparatus enables a user to experience sensations which have been reported as relaxing, stress relieving and beneficial. The apparatus comprises a base, a platform for holding a human body thereon, an elongated teeter-totter board pivotally mounted upon the base, a drive shaft upon which is mounted a tilted plate. Low frictional rollers support the platform on the tilted plate with the platform also being pivotally supported on a first pivot axis on the teeter-totter board with the teeter-totter board being mounted on a second pivot axis on the base. The first pivot axis is oriented perpendicular to the second pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Inventors: Larry D. Shultz, Arnold Stillman
  • Base for a human support apparatus
    Patent number: 5186424
    Abstract: A base for a human support apparatus such as a bed or a chair which produces a rocking chair type of motion. The base also includes a motor which when driven simultaneously moves the bed or chair in a circular motion within a horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Integrative Motion Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry D. Shultz, Carl W. Bolton