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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Grass Gmbh, Hoechst, AT;
Inventor:
Ronald Liebsch, Primisweiler, DE;
Assignee:
Grass GmbH, Hoechst, AT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47B 97/00 (2006.01); A47B 88/457 (2017.01); E05F 15/73 (2015.01); G01V 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47B 88/457 (2017.01); A47B 97/00 (2013.01); E05F 15/73 (2015.01); G01V 3/088 (2013.01); A47B 2200/0056 (2013.01); A47B 2220/0091 (2013.01); E05Y 2400/44 (2013.01); E05Y 2400/852 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A piece of furniture with a sensor device is provided. The sensor device includes an electrode arrangement which is arranged on a furniture section of the piece of furniture. The electrode arrangement, which is located at one side of the piece of furniture, detects changes in an electric field in a surrounding region with or without touching the electrode arrangement or the piece of furniture. The sensor device includes a detection unit, wherein a position of a body in the surrounding region of the piece of furniture is determined by a detected change in the electric field.