Haworth, Inc.

Steven Jay King

Robert Clare Wayner

David E Emery

Randell E Pate

Timothy John Warwick

Patrick E Young

Charles J Saylor

X Shawn Yu

Steffen Lipsky

Barry Lee Andersen

Ryan J McClymonds

Clifford Wayne Nelson

Eric B Snavely

Richard D Benscoter

Harold R Wilson

Ross S Johnson

Peter J Beyer

Mark A Powell

Jason DeWeerd

Kristen R Glick

Bryan L Roels

David Koning

Thomas F Ysseldyke

An interface module supportable by a support member includes a housing, having an upper portion defining an access opening and a lower portion, and an interface assembly. The interface assembly is mounted to the upper portion at the access opening. The interface assembly includes an interface device, the interface device having an electrical connection element. The lower portion is placeable in a first orientation spaced-apart from the upper portion to provide substantially unhindered access to the electrical connection element, and in a second orientation secured to the upper portion to define an open region between the lower portion and the interface assembly. Examples of the interface device include a utility power interface device, a reduced power electrical interface device, a USB device, an audiovisual interface device, a data interface device, and a communication interface device. The interface module can include rows of interface assemblies overlying the same open region.

Electrical box and bracket with an interface assembly

An adjustable panel leg system in a low-profile design includes a foot, an upright leg for supporting an object such as a panel, and an upright adjustment mechanism disposed above the foot and between the foot and the upright leg to enable adjustment of the angle of the upright leg with respect to the foot. The upright adjustment mechanism may include a horizontal pin extending through a portion of the upright leg, such that the upright leg can pivot about the pin with respect to the foot. The upright adjustment mechanism may also include a tubular support extending upwardly from the foot. A portion of the upright leg extends into the opening of the tubular support. The pin extends through the tubular support and the portion of the upright leg such that the leg can pivot within the tubular support.

Leveler leg

A video switch system providing a collaborative environment for one or more users to share information. In the current embodiment, the video switch system enables users to quickly connect to the system, present information, have a video conference, or have a multi-user wireless video session, or a combination thereof, in a collaborative manner.

Video switch

A storage cabinet employing a door formed in one monolithic piece from a thin sheet of light-weight but relatively rigid material, such as compressed resin-bonded plastic fibers. The door has a pair of panels, such as upper and lower door panels, integrally joined through a living hinge.

Storage cabinet with movable door

A workstation and a power and telecommunication arrangement therefor which together define a work area and, more specifically, to an improved workstation which includes a console supported on a worksurface or table and housing one or more electrical power receptacles and/or communication receptacles and the cabling associated therewith, and an elongate and flexible raceway assembly which provides an enclosed conduit for feeding power and communication cabling into and out of the console and which is capable of distributing such cabling along a series of interconnected workstations.

Workstation and power and telecommunication arrangement therefor

A flexible raceway arrangement for routing power and/or communication cabling to a work area. The raceway arrangement includes an elongate support member which mounts thereon a plurality of raceway covers arranged along the support member in side-by-side relation with one another to define an elongate raceway run. The individual side covers are pivotably openable to provide access to cabling within the interior thereof.

Flexible raceway arrangement for cabling

A modular electrical system for mounting on furniture components such as wall panels. The system includes modules which each include at least one power block provides increased electrical circuit capacity, which capacity in the preferred embodiment is at least six electrical circuits. The power block provides different groupings of circuits which are externally accessible, such as for connection to removable receptacle units, on opposite sides thereof. Flexible electrical connectors are provided for connection to and transmitting electrical power between power blocks of adjacent panels. Each connector transmits only one grouping of electrical circuits therethrough, whereby two such connectors are normally utilized for connection between adjacent power blocks of adjacent panels to transmit all electrical circuits therebetween. The individual flexible electrical connectors can be used for transmitting electrical energy into branching panels, which branching panels may be provided with only the selected grouping of circuits.

Electrical powerway for furniture panel

A wall panel electrical system provided with a low-voltage switching system so that remote panel-mounted receptacle units can be switched on or off from a single remote manual switch. The manual switch is mounted on one of the panels at a convenient location, such as adjacent a door. This switch controls a power supply unit mounted on the panel, such as at the base or at worksurface height. This power supply unit is electrically coupled to a power block which comprises part of the electrical system. The power supply unit mounts interiorly thereof both a low-voltage direct current power supply in the form of a transformer and rectifying circuit, as well as an internal switching arrangement which is powered by a low-voltage circuit to control an electrical outlet. The remote switch controls and energizes the switching arrangement only when the remote switch is 'on' to couple an outlet of the power supply unit to the input contacts from the power block. Remote receptacle units can be electrically connected to the power supply unit, and each remote receptacle unit also has a low-voltage interior switching arrangement coupled between the respective input contacts and the outlet thereof, which switching arrangements are likewise closed only when the remote switch unit is 'on'.

Electrified interior space-dividing members with low-voltage switching

An electrical system for an interior space-dividing system which, in a preferred embodiment, constitutes an eight-wire, three-circuit system. The electrical system is prefabricated and includes elongate harnesses mounted within channels which extend interiorly or portable space-dividing members. Adjacent harnesses are electrically joined by flexible electrical jumpers which create pluglike connections with power blocks provided on the ends of adjacent harnesses. Receptacle units are removably connectable to at least one side of each power block, and have circuit-selecting capability to facilitate access to all three circuits from adjacent work areas. The receptacle unit includes at least two exteriorly accessible receptacles of conventional configuration associated with a front face of the receptacle unit housing, and the housing internally includes independent sets of three conductors each respectively associated with one of the receptacles and each set having independent circuit-selecting structure associated therewith so that each of the two receptacles associated with a single receptacle unit can be independently circuit selected.

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Holland, MI, United States of America

Steven Jay King