Steelcase Inc.

Smith System Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Bruce M Smith

James N Ludwig

Gordon J Peterson

Robert J Battey

Nickolaus William Charles Deevers

Glen Oliver Low

Kurt R Heidmann

Mark William Spoelhof

Glen Oliver Löw

Russell T Holdredge

William Burr Bennie

Yuka Hiyoshi

Christopher J Norman

Santiago Carral O'Gorman

Jessica Nebel

Madison Scheper

Irfan Kachwalla

Robert M Scheper

Nathan R Brock

Dale M Groendal

Fredric James Biddle

Luke Neil Pearson

Todd David Krupiczewicz

Peter J Pearce

Thomas Overthun

Richard N Roslund, Jr

Mark McKenna

Hyun Yoo

John Albert Colasanti

Tom Lloyd

Pascal Rolf Hien

Jay Armstrong Grandin

Nick Carpenter

John Richard Hamilton

Carl V Forslund, Iii

Robert J Batley

Brett Robert Kincaid

Glen Oliver Loew

Mauricio Escobar

Terence Sean Yoo

Kara W Johnson

Charles P Roossien

Douglas A Smith

Duane F Nagel

Alyssa Anne Robert

James E Massey

David C Pugh

Rolf Pascal Hien

Aaron Michael Porterfield

William Thomas Johnson

Karl Jahn Mead

Lukas Martin Scherrer

Robert Peter Arko

Paul Noll

Mark Vander Veen

Justin G Beitzel

Bo Anderson

Justin Champaign

Timothy D Swieter

Brian L Scholten

Ryan E Schmidt

Sharon L Tracy

Michael Held

Arnold B Dammermann

Michael W Welsh

Steven James Beukema

Frank J Rizzo

James P Steffens

Jack Wayne Johnson

Jorge Pensi

Renard G Tubergen

Brian K Snyder

Donald Jeffrey Christian

Randall Joseph Kastalanych

John R Kutzke

Roger John Carr

Daniel P Beemer

Jessie Michele Storey

David Alun Williams

Kade Roggentine

Mark Spoelhoff

Frederic Biddle

Amanda Hargraves

Patricia Sheung Ying Wong

Jay A Grandin

Gordon Jay Peterson

Malachi L Alvarez

Ryan McGovern

Greg Opatik

Kade Alan Roggentine

Gregory Joseph Opatik

Ryan Noel Mcgovern

Luke Person

A system and methods including workstations for use in office spaces where the workstations include electrical couplers and power distribution systems for coupling portable and rechargeable batteries to the arrangements and delivering electrical charge to affordance devices where battery charging stations are located at different locations throughout a facility and alerts including nearest charging station with fully charged batteries are provided to employees at the stations when battery depletion thresholds are met or where batteries are automatically delivered to facility locations via automated robotic carts when needed.

Remote power systems, apparatus and methods

A body support structure includes a structural lattice structure having a first stiffness, and a compressive lattice structure supported by the structural lattice structure and having a second stiffness less than the first stiffness. A skin lattice structure is supported by the compressive lattice structure, wherein the skin lattice structure is resistant to shear deformation in response to a normal force and is expandable in a direction transverse to the normal force.

Body support member with lattice structure

Chair

Table

A seating arrangement includes a support shell including a seat portion and a chair back portion each configured to support a seated user, the chair seat portion having a front region and a rear region and the chair back portion having an upper region and a lower region, where the rear region of the seat portion is coupled to the lower region of the chair back portion, a control member including a substantially flexible front support and an attachment point, where the front support engages the support shell in the front region of the seat portion and the control member engages the back portion, and a substantially rigid second support attached to the control member at the attachment point, wherein the control member is an integral, one-piece component including multiple flex regions configured to allow the support shell to move between an upright and reclined position.

Seating arrangement

Set of nested stools

A seating arrangement includes a back arrangement movable between upright and reclined positions, a linkage arrangement including a first link member comprising a portion of a seat arrangement, a second link member supported on a base, flexibly resilient front link members extending between forward portions of the first and second link members and being integral with the second link member, and a rigid rear link member extending between rearward portions of the first and second link members including a separate piece from the first or second link members, wherein the rearward portion of the first link member extends laterally in a first plane when the back arrangement is upright, and laterally in a second plane when the back arrangement is reclined, where the second plane is angled with respect to the first plane, and is positioned farther away from the base when the back arrangement is reclined than when upright.

Stool

A seating arrangement includes a base, a lower shell including a first portion coupled to the base and comprising a substantially horizontal portion, a curved transition portion and a backrest portion, a pair of laterally spaced front links extending upwardly from a forward portion of the first portion, a rear link extending upwardly from a rearward portion of the first portion of the lower shell and forwardly of the transition region of the lower shell, and an upper shell comprising a seating portion coupled to the pair of front links and to the rear link, a curved transition portion spaced apart from the curved transition portion of the lower shell and defining an open lateral pass through therebetween, and a backrest portion connected to the backrest portion of the lower shell.

A seating arrangement includes a base, a back arrangement and a seat arrangement each supported by the base, the back arrangement movable between an upright position and reclined position, the seat arrangement including a stop member, a shell supported on the base and forming at least a portion of the seat arrangement, the shell including a first portion and second portion movable relative to the first portion, the shell configured such that a downward force exerted on the first portion by a seated user forces the back arrangement from the reclined position toward the upright position, and a tilt limiter coupled to the base and configured to engage the stop member at both the upright position and the reclined position.

Chair assembly

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East Grand Rapids, MI, United States of America

Bruce M Smith