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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2024
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, E Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Carl V. Forslund, Iii, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
John Hamilton, San Rafael, CA (US);
Kurt R. Heidmann, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
James Ludwig, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Bruce Smith, East Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Aaron Michael Porterfield, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sharon L. Tracy, Wyoming, MI (US);
Paul Noll, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
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.