# US 11,304,530 B1 · Auxiliary chair

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- Number: US 11,304,530 B1
- Document ID: US11304530B1
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B1
- Application number: 17/314,237
- Filed: 2021-05-07
- Granted: 2022-04-19
- Earliest claimed: 2021-05-07
- Assignees: Forever Young Enterprise Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Forever Young Enterprise Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Fang-Sheng Lin
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11304530B1

## CPC

- A47C 3/34: with pins coacting with holes
- A61G 5/1002: {with toilet facilities (room closets, night chairs A47K11/04)}
- A47K 11/04: Room closets; Chairs with toilet conveniences or specially adapted for use with toilets, e.g. night chairs {; Closets for children, also with signalling means, e.g. with a music box, or the like}
- A61G 5/1059: {adjusting the height of the seat}
- A61G 5/1062: {adjusting the width of the seat}
- A47C: CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A61G: TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N1/00)
- A47K: SANITARY EQUIPMENT; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR, e.g. TOILET ACCESSORIES

## Abstract

An auxiliary chair includes a supporting unit and a seating unit. The supporting unit includes a plurality of chair legs. The seating unit includes a seat cushion and a cushion frame installed on a bottom surface of the seat cushion. The cushion frame includes two spaced support tubes and two spaced connecting plates. The first and second ends of each support tube are respectively connected to one of the chair legs through a cushion connection tube, so that the seating unit is supported by the chair legs of the supporting unit. A lug extends from each of the first and second ends of each support tube. The connecting plates straddle the first end and the second end of the support tubes respectively. The connecting plates are combined with the lugs of the support tubes by connecting members, so that the support tubes and the connecting plates are detachably combined.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An auxiliary chair comprising:
a supporting unit including a plurality of chair legs; and
a seating unit supported by the plurality of chair legs of the supporting unit and including a seat cushion and a cushion frame mounted on a bottom surface of the seat cushion, with the cushion frame including two support tubes spaced in a longitudinal direction and two connecting plates spaced in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, with each of the two support tubes including first and second ends spaced in the transverse direction, wherein the first and second ends of each support tube respectively extend with a lug that abuts against the bottom surface of the seat cushion, the two connecting plates respectively span the two support tubes and are positioned below the lugs of the two support tubes, and the two connecting plates are combined with the lugs of the two support tubes by connecting members, so that the two connecting plates are detachably combined with the two support tubes.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The auxiliary chair of claim 1, wherein the supporting unit further includes a cushion sleeve fixed to an upper end of each chair leg, and the seating unit further includes a plurality of cushion connection tubes, with each cushion connection tube including a transverse section and a vertical section, with the vertical section of each cushion connection tube engaged in a corresponding cushion sleeve, with the transverse section of each cushion connection tube engaged in one of the first and second ends of a corresponding support tube.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The auxiliary chair of claim 2, wherein each support tube has a tube hole therein, and the first and second ends of each support tube are respectively provided with a plurality of adjustment holes in communication with the tube hole, with a button provided on the transverse section of each cushion connection tube and engaged in one of the plurality of adjustment holes in the corresponding support tube.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The auxiliary chair of claim 1, wherein a support sleeve is installed between each lug of the two support tubes and a corresponding connecting plate.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The auxiliary chair of claim 1, wherein a seat back is installed on a rear side of the seat cushion and has two seat back supporting tubes, and the two connecting plates are respectively provided with a seat back connecting tube to be engaged with one of the two seat back supporting tubes.

### Claim 6 (depends on 2)

The auxiliary chair of claim 2, wherein the supporting unit further includes two armrests, and the cushion sleeve is connected with an armrest sleeve which is fixed to the upper end of one of the chair legs to be combined with a corresponding armrest.