A posture adjustment system includes a set of sensors coupled to a chair on which a person may sit. The posture adjustment system gathers data from the set of sensors and generates a posture model that reflects a posture associated with the seated person. The posture adjustment system then determines corrections to the posture of the person that could, potentially, improve their posture. The posture adjustment system then indicates those corrections to the person, or, alternatively, applies a set of adjustments to the chair to cause the person to assume a new posture that reflects the posture corrections.

A furniture system with an electrically height-adjustable table which has at least one electrically height-adjustable frame, in particular an electrically height-adjustable table leg, with at least one electric motor via which a height adjustment of the table top is possible, and a motor control device for controlling the at least one electric motor as well as at least one sensor device for temporally detecting a value of at least one motor characteristic of the at least one electric motor, a communication module with a control and evaluation device, which is coupled to the at least one sensor device, for evaluating the values of the at least one motor characteristic, which values are detected by means of the at least one sensor device, with regard to a deviation from a respective motor characteristic reference value, which communication module is coupled to the motor control device via a data connection, and a remote computer, in particular server, preferably with a web interface, which can be connected to the communication module via a data network and has a data storage device as well as means for expanded remote fault diagnosis for the at least one electrically height-adjustable table.

An intelligent automated chair that is configured to have uploaded various operating models to run a sequence of patterns that cause the intelligent automated chair to alternate between various positions. An intelligent automated chair system configured to receive data from various inputs including user input, sensors, biosensors, historical usage, profile, and others to generate a recommended operating model for the intelligent automated chair. An intelligent automated chair system running an operating model that is interruptible manually by a user or as a result of sensed date, which can alter the pattern or parameters of the operating model.

An inflatable cushion for body support is described. The inflatable cushion can be adjusted to manually/automatically set the proper pressure distribution, remove pressure from sensitive regions, alternate pressure, facilitate moisture removal, automatically detect leakage and avoid bottom down, communicate leakage and other problems with the user/caregiver, detect wrong positioning and facilitate position correction. The inflatable cushion can be used either as a chair cushion such as for example as a cushion for wheelchair or as a bed mattress.

The present invention relates to a seat for infants and toddlers equipped with a ventilation cooling device, the seat comprising: an upper plate (10) in which a plurality of air intake ports (101) and air exhaust ports (102) are formed; a lower plate (20) coupled to a lower portion of the upper plate (10), and having an internal space partitioned, by means of a partition wall (201), into an intake space (202) and an exhaust space (203), wherein the two spaces communicate with each other through a vent portion (201a) having a predetermined size formed in the partition wall (201); a blowing fan (30), installed inside the intake space (202), for intaking air that is outside the air intake ports (101) and discharging same through the air exhaust ports (102) that communicate with the exhaust space (203); a power supply unit (40) for supplying power to the blowing fan (30); and an air guide (50), formed at a lower portion of the air exhaust ports (102), for guiding air discharge. According to the present invention, ventilation between a baby's body part in close contact with a seat surface and the seat surface in close contact with the body part, and cooling corresponding to the ventilation are smoothly performed by means of the blowing fan, such that excellent comfort can be provided, and it is possible to carry and store the seat easily.

An apparatus (1) for positioning the body of a user (100), wherein the apparatus can be used in a seat or in the form of a rest, comprising a seating element (20), a pelvis and lumbar-spine module (13) and a computer unit (40), wherein the pelvis and lumbar-spine module comprises an adjusting element (117) and a sensor (113), and the seating element comprises an adjusting element (108) and three sensors (111, 112), wherein the sensors (111, 112, 113) sense seat-related and rest-related pressures, wherein the computer unit activates the adjusting elements, wherein a first and second sensor (112) and a third sensor (111) sense the seat-related pressure of the first and second ischial tuberosities (102) and of the coccyx (104), wherein the first and the second ischial tuberosities define an ischial-tuberosity level, wherein the adjusting element of the seating element compensates for the ischial-tuberosity level horizontally about the user's sagittal axis, and whereupon the adjusting element of the pelvis and lumbar-spine module tilts the user's pelvis (101) about the horizontal axis of the same until the seat-related and/or rest-related pressure of the coccyx has a value substantially equal to zero.

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.

A smart chair and logging/warning assembly are disclosed. In some implementations, the smart chair includes a base arranged to receive a sitter, a sensor, and a transmitter. The sensor can be located within the base. Additionally, the sensor can take initial readings relating to the sitter on the chair for reference. Further, the sensor can take readings of the sitter while they are sitting and transmit information relating to the sitter's sitting to a computational device.

A system and method establishing control of affordances at a workstation. The method includes the steps of storing affordance preferences in a database for a plurality of portable affordance settings that may be present at a workstation, detecting a subset of affordances present within a first zone associated with the workstation, for each detected affordance in the subset, identifying an affordance setting in the database indicating a user preference, and automatically controlling settings of at least each of the detected affordances in the subset to match the user preferences for the detected affordances.

Disclosed herein is a chair that includes a backrest portion, a seat portion coupled with the backrest portion, a column portion coupled with the seat portion, a linkage coupled with the backrest portion, a leaf spring in direct contact with the linkage, an arc-shaped toothed structure fixed translationally relative to the column portion, and a different toothed structure in contact with the arc-shaped toothed structure. The chair is also configured such that when a weight is applied to the seat portion, a fulcrum point of the leaf spring moves as the different toothed structure moves along the arc-shaped toothed structure to thereby shorten a working length of the leaf spring and provide an increased resistance to tilting of the backrest portion relative to the column portion. A process for assembling the chair and a weight-based tilt-resistance assembly for use with the chair are also described herein.