Patent classifications
A47B21/0314
Slidable work surface
A workstation is disclosed. The workstation includes a tabletop or desktop having a work surface assembly that has a base structure, a cover member, and a brake assembly. The cover member is supported by the base structure and defines a work surface arranged at an inclination relative to a horizontal surface. The cover member is adapted to slide relative to the base structure between an extended position and a retracted position. Moreover, the brake assembly is adapted to prevent the sliding of the cover member relative to base structure and holds the cover member stationary with the base structure.
Desk with User Selectable Adjustments for Hot Desking
A desk includes a work surface, a casing, a carriage, a stand, and a plurality of actuators. The actuators are operable to selectively adjust a vertical position of the work surface, the stand between at least a stored position and a deployed position, and a lateral position of the carriage. The casing is mounted to the work surface and defines an interior volume sized for receipt of a display. The carriage is mounted to the stand and is configured for supporting the display. A controller is in operative communication with the actuators and is configured for receiving data corresponding to a desk configuration over a wireless network and activating one or more of the actuators to correspond to the desk configuration.
User arm support for use in a robotic surgical system
A user system for a robotic surgical system, the user system including a handheld groundless user interface device configured to control the robotic surgical system, and a user console. The user console includes a seat and a first adjustable, ergonomic arm support linkage coupled to the seat, in which the first arm support linkage is movable between a folded storage configuration and at least one unfolded use configuration corresponding to at least one of a user characteristic and a surgical task characteristic. The at least one unfolded use configuration may be pre-stored in a database.
ACCESSORY SUPPORT DEVICE
The disclosure relates to an accessory support device, comprising a support structure that defines a flat base plane. And comprising an inclined portion that is supported on the support structure that extends in an inclined plane upward relative to the base plane from a front of the accessory support device to a rear of the accessory support device. The accessory support device further comprises an upright portion that is supported on the support structure or on the inclined portion that extends in a mainly upright plane relative to the base plane from the rear of the accessory support device, so as to form a privacy panel that shields the user from being seen from the rear of the accessory support device. The upright portion and the inclined portion are angularly adjustably connected via an angle compensation device to compensate the upright portion for angular adjustment of the inclined portion.
Robot Cell
A robot cell useful for robot demonstrations. The robot cell includes a base frame having an outer casing and a working surface having a through opening. A multi-axis demonstration robot is mounted to a stand within the base and may selectively be raised through the through opening to a demonstration position above the working surface or a storage position below the working surface and concealed within the base frame outer casing. A protective screen is positioned outside the working surface and base frame and is selectively raised and lowered to respectively surround the working surface and robot during demonstrations and lowered around the base frame during non-use. The base may include one or more retractable drawers for storage of cell control units or a robot controller. When in a storage or non-demonstration position, the cell is transportable and compact taking a minimum amount of space.
FUNCTIONAL COMPLEX DESK SYSTEM
The present invention relates to a functional complex desk system comprising: an electromotive chair assembly as a seat on which a user sits; a monitor-equipped multi-joint table device which has a monitor and a main table arranged at one side of the monitor, and which movably support the monitor and the main table in a multi-joint manner; a user position tracking unit for tracking the optimal position that is appropriate for the body condition or posture of the user having sat on the electromotive chair assembly; and a system controller for automatically controlling the operation of the monitor-equipped multi-joint table device so that the monitor and the main table are arranged at optimal positions according to the modified posture of the user on the basis of the tracking signal of the user position tracking unit.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING ARCING BASED ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Method and system allowing more accurate detection and identification of unwanted arcing include novel processing of signal voltage representing recovered power-line current. In one implementation, arc-faults are detected based on numerical analysis where individual cycles of line voltage and current are observed and data collected during each cycle is processed to estimate likelihood of presence of arc-event within each individual cycle based on pre-defined number of arc-events occurring within pre-defined number of contiguous cycles. In another implementation, fast transient current spikes detection can be done by: computing difference values between consecutive line-current samples collected over a cycle, average of differences, and peak-to-peak value of line-current; comparing each difference value to average of difference; comparing each difference value to peak-to-peak value; and, based on calculation of composite of two comparisons, using thresholds to determine if arcing is present within processed cycle.
WORKSTATION ACCESSORY INCLUDING A CLAMP MECHANISM
A workstation includes a working surface, a channel within the working surface, a rail positioned within the channel, and a clamp mechanism having an accessory and an actuator operable to removably couple the clamp mechanism to the rail. The actuator includes a first side that has a first manually engageable surface and a second side that has a second manually engageable surface. The actuator is movable to a first position in which the clamp mechanism disengages the rail when a force is exerted on the first manually engageable surface, and is movable to a second position in which the clamp mechanism engages the rail when a force is exerted on the second manually engageable surface.
Refrigerator Standing Desk
While standing desks take up their own floor space in a home or housing unit, which can diminish the usability of the space and be costly to work, working-from-home, and daily life, and are a separate item a home resident/worker/student must acquire, the refrigerator installed in or near the kitchen is considered essential to a home, or housing unit and already takes up an expected place on the home's unit's floor space. The space in front of the refrigerator is also already presumed to remain clear, because via the front refrigerator door is the way that food and beverages are stored in and accessed from the refrigerator. Because this is naturally already used space in a home, the resident utilizing that space for a second productive function of dwelling in a home—being able to work or study from home—is an improved use of the space directly in front of the refrigerator. The already-assumed refrigerator location, having an essential and unchanged footprint, also affords a top surface already. The Refrigerator Standing Desk invention is the solution to using the outer surfaces of the appliance where housing residents store food as a highly ergonomic and sustainably functioning desk where the resident can stand for work or study.
By not taking up floor space, the Refrigerator Standing Desk benefits residents, homeowners, tenants, landlords, homebuilders, housing developments, work-from-home employees, work-from-home entrepreneurs, and students. The user also benefits with the proximity and ease of chilled and stored food access.
The invention's frame consists of an alcove for the input human-computer interaction (HCI) devices and the user's arms, which is a deep indentation of empty space providing the area for the adjustable platform on which can rest the computer keyboard, mouse, and user's hands, wrists, and forearms. The alcove shaped area in the Refrigerator Standing Desk affords use of the keyboard and mouse in an ergonomic standing position.
Additional innovation consists of: A platform to secure, support, protect, raise, lower, tilt, shift left and right, and connect the user' s laptop or portable computer. A monitor attachment system, consisting of a groove into which a flat monitor can be secured An addition of cabling space designated within the walls of the known refrigerator appliance, and surfacing through the walls at designated port-connection locations such as the unit top surface and the mid-height alcove surface. The cabling channels are spaces through which data typical connection cables (such as USB) can be fed, connecting keyboard, mouse, and monitor connection with the state-of-the-art technology. The connection cab
Collapsible table
An example collapsible table is described. The collapsible table includes a table top including a top surface and a bottom surface. The collapsible table includes a supporting mechanism coupled to the table top and including a first support assembly and a second support assembly. Each of the first and second support assemblies can be to be disposed in an extended configuration and a collapsed configuration. In the extended configuration, the first and second support assemblies mechanically engage the table top to maintain the table top elevated at an extended height. In the collapsed configuration, the first and second support assemblies collapse to maintain the table top elevated at a collapsed height.