WO2001071527A2 - Ergonomic chair - Google Patents
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- WO2001071527A2 WO2001071527A2 PCT/CA2001/000361 CA0100361W WO0171527A2 WO 2001071527 A2 WO2001071527 A2 WO 2001071527A2 CA 0100361 W CA0100361 W CA 0100361W WO 0171527 A2 WO0171527 A2 WO 0171527A2
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C31/00—Details or accessories for chairs, beds, or the like, not provided for in other groups of this subclass, e.g. upholstery fasteners, mattress protectors, stretching devices for mattress nets
- A47C31/12—Means, e.g. measuring means for adapting chairs, beds or mattresses to the shape or weight of persons
- A47C31/126—Means, e.g. measuring means for adapting chairs, beds or mattresses to the shape or weight of persons for chairs
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C3/00—Chairs characterised by structural features; Chairs or stools with rotatable or vertically-adjustable seats
- A47C3/02—Rocking chairs
- A47C3/025—Rocking chairs with seat, or seat and back-rest unit elastically or pivotally mounted in a rigid base frame
- A47C3/026—Rocking chairs with seat, or seat and back-rest unit elastically or pivotally mounted in a rigid base frame with central column, e.g. rocking office chairs; Tilting chairs
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C7/00—Parts, details, or accessories of chairs or stools
- A47C7/36—Support for the head or the back
- A47C7/40—Support for the head or the back for the back
- A47C7/44—Support for the head or the back for the back with elastically-mounted back-rest or backrest-seat unit in the base frame
- A47C7/441—Support for the head or the back for the back with elastically-mounted back-rest or backrest-seat unit in the base frame with adjustable elasticity
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C7/00—Parts, details, or accessories of chairs or stools
- A47C7/36—Support for the head or the back
- A47C7/40—Support for the head or the back for the back
- A47C7/44—Support for the head or the back for the back with elastically-mounted back-rest or backrest-seat unit in the base frame
- A47C7/443—Support for the head or the back for the back with elastically-mounted back-rest or backrest-seat unit in the base frame with coil springs
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- the present invention relates to a sitting unit such as a chair and, more particularly, to a work station chair which can shift in response to different positions of a person sitting on the chair, leaning forward in work mode and leaning back in a rest position.
- the demands of the seated work position mandate the user to accommodate a range of postural adjustments from the slightly rearward reclined rest position through to the forward hunched task posture.
- Passive automatic adaptation or adjustment of the seat support system is required if the natural balance and equilibrium of the body's support is to be maintained. Failure to maintain the body's equilibrium and structural balance will result in the creation of adverse, static postural loads and forces responsible for fatigue and biomechanical dysfunction so common in today's seated society.
- Cowan et al describes, in Canadian patent application no. 2,116,079, a work station chair having a seat passively pivotable about the ankle of the person sitting on the chair and a backrest passively pivotable about the H-point.
- a cable system is provided for positive adjustment of resiliency of the pivoting movement of the seat and backrest for different weight loads of persons sitting on the chair.
- the H-point is physically required in the chair, which is a pair of pivoting pins attached to two arm support posts respectively.
- Such a configuration limits the application of the H-point backrest because the position of the H-point is always above the seat and cannot be attached to the supportive structure under the seat. Therefore, an improvement is desirable.
- a positive adjustment mechanism simpler in structure and easier for use is also desired to replace the cable system which has to be adjusted in an inconvenient rear position.
- the present invention is used to provide a chair passively adjustable in response to the shift center of gravity of a person sitting on the chair, comprising a supportive structure adapted to support the chair and the weight of the person; a seat adjustably mounted on the supportive structure and pivotable in a vertical plane about an ankle point of the person; a backrest adjustably mounted on the seat and pivotable in the vertical plane about a nature pivot point of the torso and thigh lines of the person; resilient means for resiliently supporting the respective seat and backrest in a position in which the person sitting erectly or forwardly for work, and permitting the seat and backrest to pivot in response to the shift center of gravity of the person for rest; and a positive adjustment mechanism mounted on a front of the chair and associated with the resilient means for positively adjusting the resilience of the resilient means by the person while sitting on the chair.
- the resilient means preferably comprises a first support end pivotly mounted on the supportive structure, a second support end pivotally mounted on the backrest, and a third support end pivotally mounted to the positive adjustment mechanism and slidable relative to the seat for adjusting the resilience of the resilient means .
- a backrest structure for a chair comprising a curved track in fixed relation to a seat of the chair; a carriage slidably mounted on the curved track; a backrest mounted on the carriage; a resilient support mechanism provided for resiliently supporting the carriage and backrest with respect to the seat so that the carriage is biased uppermost to support the backrest in an erect position, and adapted to slide down along the curved track and tilt the backrest rearwards and downwardly in response to a rearward shift of the weight of a person sitting on the chair and leaning against the backrest.
- the curved track is preferably a circular arc having a radius in a vertical plane generated from a point which substantially matches a natural pivot point of the torso and thigh lines of the person sitting on the chair so-called H point.
- the chair further includes: a supportive structure adapted to support the chair and the weight of a person sitting on the chair, a curved track mounted on the supportive structure, a carriage slidably mounted on the curved track and attached in a fixed relationship to a base of the seat so that the base is moveable relative to the supportive structure, and a resilient support mechanism is provided for resiliently supporting the base relative to the supportive structure so that the carriage is biased to support the seat on the base in a substantially horizontal position and is enabled to slide down along the curved track and tilt the seat rearwards and downwardly in response to a rearward shift of the weight of the person sitting on the chair.
- the curved track is a circular arc having a radius in a vertical plane generated from a point which is close to a natural pivot point of the ankle joint of the person.
- the chair structure according to the present invention is simple and applicable to different styles of work station chairs, such as chairs with or without arm support .
- the chairs are comfortable and reduce adverse static postural loads and forces, especially in reclined position when angle between torso and thigh is open which are responsible for the fatigue and biomechanical dysfunction. It is easy to adjust the chairs for different weight loads of persons, which can be done by the person while sitting on the chair and reaching for an adjustment knob in front of the chair and under the seat pan.
- FIG. 1 is a side view of a chair in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2 is a partial side view of a frame structure of the chair in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is a top end front perspective view of the frame structure in FIG. 2 ;
- FIG. 4a is a side view of a backrest moving rail
- FIG. 4b is a perspective view of the backrest moving rail in FIG. 4a, showing the grooves for bearing balls;
- FIG. 5 is a partial cross-sectional view of the backrest rail assembly taken from lines 5-5 in FIG. 3;
- FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the backrest balls cage
- FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a positive adjustment assembly for adjusting the resilience of the seat and the backrest of the chair.
- FIG. 8 is a partial side view of the frame structure in FIG. 2, showing the positive adjustment in response to the different weight loads of persons utilizing the chair. MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- a chair 10 having an upstanding post 12 and a base 14 mounted with rollers 16, as seen in typical work station chairs.
- the chair 10 also includes a seat portion 18 having a seat 20 that is fixed on carriage 30 to support the weight of the person sitting on the chair, and a backrest portion 22 having a backrest 24 that is mounted to the seat portion 18 for supporting the upper body of the person.
- the seat portion 18 is rotatable in a horizontal plane about an axis of the post 12 and pivotable in a vertical plane about an ankle point A of the person while the backrest portion 22 is pivotable in the vertical plane about a natural pivot point H is at the intersection of the torso and thigh lines of the person.
- the chair 10 is enabled to move and be oriented in any direction as well as provide passive adjustment in response to shift in the weight of the person between a position in which the person sits erectly or leans forward for work and another position in which the person tilts and leans rearwardly in rest.
- the activation of the mechanism is a result of the combination of the body of the person pivoting about the ankle point A with the upper body of the person pivoting about the H point.
- the seat portion 18 further includes a seat plate 26 which is rectangular, and two side plates 28 extend downwards from two sides of the seat plate 26, respectively.
- a carriage 30 is fixed to the undersurface of the seat plate 26 and to the rear ends of the two side plates 28, and rolls on a track member 32.
- the track member 32 is mounted to the sleeve 34 by side plates 36.
- the track member 32 is a circular arc track having a predetermined radius, and is welded or otherwise fixed to the mounting sleeve 34 through a pair of sleeve side plates 36 in such a position that the central point of the circular arc track 32 is close to the ankle point A of the person sitting on the chair after the chair installation is completed.
- the sleeve 34 is mounted to the rotatable cylinder of the post 12.
- the sleeve 34 and the post 12 assembly may include bearings and height adjustment structures which are not shown, but are typical in the existing work station chairs in the market, and are well known by those skilled in the art.
- the seat portion 18 is resiliently supported by two compressible gas cylinders 38.
- Each gas cylinder 38 includes a piston rod 40 axially extending from the cylinder 38, terminating at a piston rod end 42.
- a rear cylinder support rod 44 is supported on the lower end of the sleeve side plates 36, extending transversely with two ends protruding outwardly from the respective sleeve side plates 36.
- the rear cylinder support rod 44 is perpendicular to the piston rods 40 and each end of the rear cylinder support rod 44 is rotatably received in a concave surface on the piston rod end 42 at either side of the seat portion 18.
- a cylinder end not shown, has a similar concave surface to rotatably receive a front cylinder support rod 46 which is parallel to the rear cylinder support rod 44, and adjustably supported by a positive adjustment assembly 48 mounted on the front end of the seat portion 18.
- the front cylinder support rod 46 is supported on the seat portion 18 and the position thereof relative to the seat portion is not changed in the passive adjustment when the gas cylinder 38 is compressed by the weight load. However, the front cylinder support rod 46 is enabled to be changed in positions relative to the seat portion 18 for different weight loads of persons utilizing the chair when the positive adjustment assembly 48 is adjusted. The detail of the positive adjustment assembly 48 and its operation will be described hereinafter.
- the seat portion 18 further includes a pair of support side plates 50 and a rear end plate 52.
- the support side plates 50 are welded or otherwise connected to the rear side of the carriage 30 and the undersurface of the seat plate 26, and interconnected by the rear end plate 52 at the rear ends to form a rigid frame structure of the seat portion 18, providing a base for attachment of the backrest portion 22.
- a front plate 54 having an L-shape in cross-section is attached to the front end of the seat plate 26 and between two side plates 28 to provide a structural support for the attachment of the positive adjustment assembly 48.
- a plurality of apertures 56 are defined in the respective seat plate 26, support side plates 50 and the rear end plate 52 to reduce the weight of the frame structure.
- Mounting bores, not shown, are provided in the seat plate- 26 for mounting the seat 20.
- the backrest portion 22 includes a carriage 58 which is attached to an adapter plate 60.
- the adapter plate 60 in turn supports a pair of mounting brackets 62 of a fork type which are well known and adapted to support the backrest 24. Any other arrangement can be used to attach the backrest 24.
- the carriage 58 rolls on a track member 64 which has a circular arc in the vertical plan and terminates at an end plate 66 to stop the downward movement of the carriage 58 relative to the track member 64 at the lowest extremity.
- the track member 64 is supported on the two support side plates 50 by the end plate 66 and a pair of attachment strips 68.
- the circular arc of the track member 64 has a predetermined radius and the track member 64 is attached to the seat portion 18 of the chair in such a position that the radius center of the circular arc of the track member 64 substantially matches the natural pivot point H of the torso and thigh lines of the person sitting on the chair after the installation of the chair is completed, as shown in FIG. 1.
- the backrest portion 22 is resiliently supported by a pair of compressible spring rods 70 positioned at the respective sides.
- Each spring rod 70 is provided with a telescoping rod (not shown) extending through a spiral spring 72 which is pre-compressed between the two ends 74 of the spring rod.
- the telescoping rod inside the spiral spring 72 permits the spring rod 70 to be compressible and prevents the spiral spring 72 from losing stability and buckle.
- the front end 74 of the spring rod 70 is provided with a concave surface for rotatably receiving the front cylinder support rod 46 which has its two respective ends protruding outwardly from a pair of slots 76 defined in the respective side plates 28.
- the rear end 74 of the spring rods 70 has a concave surface for rotatably receiving a spring rod support pin 78 which extends perpendicularly to the spring rods 70 and is supported by a pair of brackets 80 at the respective sides of the carriage 58 such that when the person sitting on the chair leans backwards and downwardly, the backrest 24 pivots about the H-point (shown in FIG. 1) and the whole backrest portion 22 slides along the track member 64, compressing the spring 70 until the spring force balances a component of the weight load of the person supported by the backrest 24.
- a spring rod support pin 78 which extends perpendicularly to the spring rods 70 and is supported by a pair of brackets 80 at the respective sides of the carriage 58 such that when the person sitting on the chair leans backwards and downwardly, the backrest 24 pivots about the H-point (shown in FIG. 1) and the whole backrest portion 22 slides along the track member 64, compressing the spring 70 until the spring force balances a component of the
- the carriage and track member assemblies for passively adjustable support of the seat or backrest can be configured in various structures, such as described in the Applicant's Canadian Patent Application No. 2,116,079. Another example is described in FIGs . 4a, 4b, 5 and 6 according to the preferred embodiment of the invention. These drawings only show the details of the carriage 58 and track members 64 of the backrest portion 22 in order to avoid redundancy. However, the structural features are similarly applied to the carriage 30 and track member 32 assembly of the seat portion 18, except different radii of curvature are required to meet the different requirements of the pivoting points A and H. In FIGs.
- a main moving rail 82 is a steel plate formed generally in a circular arc having a radius of curvature generated from the H point when it is installed to the chair.
- the main moving rail 82 includes two grooves 84 at two sides acting as bearing ball races.
- the two sides of the steel plate of the main moving rail 82 are bent to form two side flanges 86 to weld a claw rail 88 (see FIGs. 3 and 5) at each side.
- a plastic ball cage 90 is provided to hold two rows of bearing balls at each side in position within the carriage 58.
- a perspective view of the ball cage 90 is shown in FIG. 6.
- the cage 90 has a radius of curvature similar to the main moving rail 82, and is restrained within the carriage 58 by any means well known to the person skilled in the art.
- the two rows of bearing balls roll on two respective ball races defined by two respective grooves 94 on each side of the track member 64.
- FIG. 7 illustrates the positive adjustment assembly 48 which includes a threaded bolt 96 (the threads not shown) that are threadedly connected to an adjustment bar 98.
- Two adjustment bar side plates 100 are welded, or otherwise attached to the two sides of the adjustment bar 98, and each adjustment bar side plate 100 has an aperture for snugly receiving the front cylinder support rod 46.
- the threaded bolt 96 is rotatably supported at one end by a bracket, not shown, which is fixed to the top on the inner side of the front plate 54 and at the other end is rotatably supported by the shorter portion 102 of the L-shaped front plate 54 (see FIG. 2) so that the bolt 96 is rotatable but prevented from axial movement relative to the front plate 54.
- the front cylinder support rod 46 is slidably received by the two slots 76 which are parallel to the threaded bolt 96 and defined in the side plates 28 to prevent the adjustment bar 98 from rotation with the bolt 96 so that the front cylinder support rod 46 is moved forward or backward along the slots 76 when the bolt 96 is rotated.
- a knob 104 is mounted to a head portion (not shown) of the threaded bolt 96 which extends outwardly from the shorter section 102 of the L-shaped front plate 54 for the person to conveniently make simultaneous adjustment of the chair and the backrest resiliency while still sitting on the chair.
- the person using the chair assumes a working position as shown in FIG. 1. In this position, the person is upright or leaning forward over a work table. In such a case, the center of gravity of the person is over the- post 12 or forward thereof.
- the gas cylinders 38 should be sufficient to maintain the seat 20 in a substantially horizontal position and thus the carriage 30 is in its upper position such as shown in FIGs. 1, 2 and 8.
- the weight of the person using the chair will effect the equilibrium of the carriage 30 on the track member 32. In this position, the chair functions as normal work station chair and the backrest 24 receives no or little component of the weight load.
- the carriage 58 is also in its upmost position.
- a component of the weight load of the person acts on the backrest 24 to an extent in which the action moment overcomes the resilience of the spring 70 to move the spring rod support pin 78 downwardly and forwardly along the track member 64 until the carriage 58 is stopped by the track and plate 66, as an extreme example.
- the backrest 24 tilts backwardly and downwardly together with the backrest portion 22 over an angle C about the H point.
- FIG. 1 A vertical line P passing through the H point represents an erect position of the person sitting on the chair.
- the seat 20 with the whole seat portion 18 tilts over the angle B about the ankle point A so that the body of the person pivots down over the angle B about the ankle point A and therefore the natural pivot point H of the torso and thigh lines of the person moves to HI and the line P moved to PI, no longer being vertical .
- the line PI further pivots rearwardly and downwardly over the angle C about the pivoting point HI to a position shown as P2 which represents the position of the upper body of the person in the rest position with the open angle of the torso and thighs.
- P2 represents the position of the upper body of the person in the rest position with the open angle of the torso and thighs.
- FIG. 8 illustrates the function of the positive adjustment assembly 48 used in this embodiment.
- the position for lighter persons is shown in FIG. 8 in full lines.
- the knob 104 is rotated so as to move the front cylinder support rod 46 along the slots 76 toward the extreme position shown in broken lines or intermediate positions therebetween.
- Both spring rods 70 and the gas cylinders 38 are further compressed relative to their positions shown in full lines. Being thus pre-compressed, the spring rods 70 and gas cylinders 38 are harder and will balance a more heavier weight load of a person in a normal work position. Because of the orientation of the slots, the gas cylinders 38 are not compressed as much as the spring rod 70 when they are adjusted to the position shown in broken lines.
- the gas cylinders 38 in the position shown in broken lines are further away from the ankle point A, thereby increasing the resistance to downward movement of the carriage 30 because a spring force will produce a bigger moment of force about point A to balance the action moment produced by a heavier weight load of a person utilizing the chair when the acting point of the same spring force is moved farther away from the pivoting point A.
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