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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2018
Faurecia Automotive Seating, Llc, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Cedric Ketels, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christian Neyrinck, Stadthagen, DE;
Rodney S. Goodrich, Watervliet, MI (US);
Thomas Dessapt, Stadthagen, DE;
Helene Chassaing, Hannover, DE;
Robert Fitzpatrick, Holland, MI (US);
Delphine Mace, Nozay, FR;
Sascha Heiden, Stadthagen, DE;
FAURECIA AUTOMOTIVE SEATING, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A portable armrest is manually convertible between a deployed configuration and a folded configuration and includes a lap portion, an arm portion, and a support portion. The support portion vertically spaces the arm portion from the lap portion when the lap portion is positioned on the lap of a seated user with the armrest in a deployed configuration, and the weight of an extended arm of the user is transferred to the lap when the arm is rested on the arm portion. The armrest is formed as a segmented panel including a plurality of rigid segments interconnected into a unitary piece by flexible joints along the perimeter of each segment. The deployed armrest enables users to relax their extended arms while bringing a handheld device into viewing range without lowering their heads. The armrest can be folded into a small packaging space for portability.