# US 10,368,637 B2 · Furniture system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,368,637 B2 - Document ID: US10368637B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/549,313 - Filed: 2016-02-12 - Published: 2018-01-25 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2015-02-12 - Applicants: Eberhard Lenz - Inventors: Eberhard Lenz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10368637B2 ## CPC - A47B 83/02: Tables combined with seats {(folding or stowable tables with separable parts combined with seats A47B3/063; foldable table and seat units A47B3/14)} - A47B 9/00: Tables with tops of variable height ({lecterns with variable height A47B19/06; school forms or desks with variable height A47B39/02, A47B41/02}; seats with variable height A47C3/20) - A47B 9/10: with vertically-acting fluid cylinder - A47C 3/20: Chairs or stools with vertically-adjustable seats - A47C 3/30: with vertically-acting fluid cylinder - A47C 31/126: {for chairs} - A47B 21/02: with vertical adjustable parts - A47B 2200/0062: Electronically user-adaptable, height-adjustable desk or table - A47B: TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE (furniture jointing F16B) - A47C: CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS ## Abstract The invention relates to a furniture system, consisting of a height-adjustable chair and a height-adjustable table. According to the invention, the chair and the table can be height-adjusted synchronously by means of a common control device, wherein the height adjustment of the table and the height adjustment of the chair are synchronized with each other in such a way that, at different heights, an ideal distance between the tabletop and the seat surface of the chair is always maintained. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A furniture system, comprising: a height-adjustable chair; and a height-adjustable table, wherein the height-adjustable chair and the height-adjustable table are adjustable in height by means of a common control device, wherein height adjustment of the height-adjustable table and the height-adjustable chair is synchronized with each other to maintain a distance between a top of the height-adjustable table and a seat surface of a seat of the height-adjustable chair, and wherein the common control device is configured to automatically adjust the height-adjustable chair and the height-adjustable table from a lower position to an upper position and the upper position to the lower position at scheduled intervals two or three times per hour, the scheduled intervals being triggerable by a single user. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The furniture system according to claim 1, wherein the common control device moves the height-adjustable chair and the height-adjustable table from the lower position to the upper position and vice versa in accordance with a program at predefinable time intervals. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The furniture system according to claim 1, wherein in the lower position in the case of the chair, at least the seat surface is adapted so that it is flat, and in the upper position the seat surface is narrow and curved upwards like a saddle. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The furniture system according to claim 1 wherein the height adjustment of the table or of the chair occurs by means of electrical, hydraulic, or pneumatic pressure cylinders. ### Claim 5 A height-adjustable chair for acting together with a furniture system, wherein a height of the height-adjustable chair is configured to be adjusted with respect to a table associated with the height-adjustable chair by a control unit, wherein a distance between a table top of the table and a seat surface of the height-adjustable chair is always maintained, and wherein the height-adjustable chair is adjustable in height between a low height and a high height by the control unit, and the control unit can automatically move the chair from the low to the high height and vice versa at scheduled intervals two or three times per hour, the scheduled intervals being triggerable by a single user. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The chair according to claim 5, wherein at the lower height, at least the seat surface is adapted so that it is flat, and at the high height the seat surface is narrow and curved upwards like a saddle. ### Claim 7 A furniture system, comprising: a height-adjustable chair; a height-adjustable table; and a common control device configured to adjust a height of the height-adjustable chair and the height-adjustable table, wherein height adjustment of the table and the chair is synchronized to maintain a preset distance between a top of the height-adjustable table and a seat surface of a seat of the height-adjustable chair, and wherein the common control device is configured to adjust the height-adjustable chair and the height-adjustable table from a lower position to an upper position and the upper position to the lower position in accordance with a program at predefinable time intervals, the predefinable time intervals being triggerable by a single user. ### Claim 8 A furniture system, comprising: a height-adjustable chair; a height-adjustable table; and a common control device configured to adjust a height of the height-adjustable chair and the height-adjustable table, wherein height adjustment of the table and the chair is synchronized to maintain a preset distance between a top of the height-adjustable table and a seat surface of a seat of the height-adjustable chair, and wherein the common control device is configured to adjust the height-adjustable chair and the height-adjustable table from a lower position to an upper position and the upper position to the lower position when intentionally triggered by a single user.