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US 2011/0084529 A1Published application
Lift assist seat
OwnerChien-Ming HUANGinventor
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Abstract
A lift assist seat has a base, a cushion, and a chamber formed on the base. A motor capable of rotating both directions, a decelerator for reducing rotation speed of the motor, and a slider driven by the motor to reciprocatively move along a straight line are mounted in the chamber. A raiser is mounted beneath the cushion and has a plurality of support members jacking up the cushion to ascend when the slider is moved toward one direction to drive the support members, or lowering the cushion to descend when the slider is moved toward the other direction, thereby helping users sitting on the cushion to stand up or sit down.
Claims20
A lift assist seat, comprising:
- a base having
- a front end;
- a rear end;
- and
- a chamber recessed from the base;
- a cushion mounted above the cushion;
- a motor mounted inside the chamber;
- a controller mounted inside the chamber and electrically connected with the motor;
- a decelerator mounted inside the chamber, driven by the motor, having a main shaft and a gear mounted on the main shaft, and reducing a rotation speed of the motor to output the reduced speed through a main shaft;
- a driver having a slider mounted inside the chamber, a first end and a second end respectively facing the front end and the rear end, and a rack mounted thereon and engaged with the gear of the decelerator, and reciprocatively moved along a straight line;
- and
- a raiser having
- a support board having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, the first side thereof pivotally connected with the front end of the base;
- and
- at least one link, one end thereof is pivotally connected with the second end of the slider and the other end pivotally connected with the second side of the support board.
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A lift assist seat, comprising:
- a base having
- a front end;
- a rear end;
- and
- a chamber recessed from the base;
- a cushion mounted above the cushion;
- a motor mounted inside the chamber;
- a controller mounted inside the chamber and electrically connected with the motor;
- a decelerator mounted inside the chamber, driven by the motor, having a main shaft and a gear mounted on the main shaft, and reducing a rotation speed of the motor to output the reduced speed through a main shaft;
- a driver having a slider mounted inside the chamber, a first end and a second end respectively facing the front end and the rear end, and a rack mounted thereon and engaged with the gear of the decelerator, and reciprocatively moved along a straight line;
- and
- an raiser having
- an upper frame;
- a lower frame;
- a first support member;
- and
- a second support member;
- wherein
- the upper frame and the lower frame respectively have a first end and a second end respectively abutting the front end and the rear end of the base and are mounted at opposite positions located under the cushion and inside the chamber of the base;
- two upper slideways and two lower slideways are respectively formed on two side peripheries of the upper frame and the lower frame respectively abutting the second ends;
- each of the slideways is parallel to the moving direction of the slider;
- a bottom end of the first support member is pivotally mounted to the first end of the lower frame;
- an upper roller shaft is pivotally connected with a top end of the first support member;
- a roller is mounted on each end of the upper roller shaft;
- each roller is located inside a corresponding upper slideway;
- a top end of the second support member is pivotally connected with the first end of the upper frame;
- a lower roller shaft is pivotally connected with a bottom end of the second support member;
- a roller is mounted on each end of the lower roller shaft;
- each roller is located inside a corresponding lower slideway;
- and
- the second support member and the first support member are pivotally and crossly connected.
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A lift assist seat, comprising:
- a base having
- a front end;
- a rear end;
- and
- a chamber recessed from the base;
- a cushion mounted above the cushion;
- a motor mounted inside the chamber;
- a controller mounted inside the chamber and electrically connected with the motor;
- a decelerator mounted inside the chamber, driven by the motor, having a main shaft and a gear mounted on the main shaft, and reducing a rotation speed of the motor to output the reduced speed through a main shaft;
- a driver having a slider mounted inside the chamber, a first end and a second end respectively facing the front end and the rear end, and a rack mounted thereon and engaged with the gear of the decelerator, and reciprocatively moved along a straight line;
- and
- an raiser having
- an upper frame;
- a lower frame;
- at least one first support member;
- at least one second support member;
- and
- at least one third support member;
- wherein
- the upper frame and the lower frame respectively have a first end and a second end respectively abutting the front end and the rear end of the base and are mounted at opposite positions located under the cushion and inside the chamber of the base;
- a top end of the at least one first support member is pivotally connected with the second end of the upper frame and a bottom end thereof is pivotally connected between the first end and the second end of the lower frame;
- a top end of the at least one second support member is pivotally connected between the first end and the second end of the upper frame and a bottom end thereof is pivotally connected with the first end of the lower frame;
- and
- a top end of the at least one third support member is pivotally connected with one of the second support members, and a bottom end thereof is pivotally connected with a second end of the slider.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.