Itoki Corporation

Minoru Hashimoto

Yasuhiro Nakamura

Yoshihiro Matsuzawa

Keisuke Tanaka

Shinji Inoue

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Kensuke Takahashi

Yuki Takeya

Jun Tatsuno

Ryogo Morita

A chair includes, a seat, a backrest separated from the seat, and an upper support frame to which the backrest is attached at a position higher than the seat. In the chair, the upper support frame includes a left side portin and a right side portions both extending forward at left and right sides of the seated person and a rear portion that continuously and integrally connects the left side portion and the right side portion. The left side portion and the right side portion are connected to side support bodies arranged on left and right sides of the seat to be tiltable, and the backrest is connected to the upper support frame to be tiltable rearward.

Chair

Provided is a chair suited to the use of a keyboard or mouse, the chair has a seatand a rocking backrest. The seatcomprises a first sectionand a second section. The first sectionof the seatis affixed to a seat-mounting shellis attached to a base, via a seat-mounting fixture, so as to be slide forwards and backwards. The backresthas a back cover, a back paneland a cushion move downwards while rotating in a seesaw fashion during rocking. The front end of the back coveris connected to the seat-mounting fixtureby means of a connecting pin. When the chair rocks, the seatmoves forwards as a whole while the second sectiontilts backward.

Rocking chair

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Osaka, Japan

Minoru Hashimoto