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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2003
Applicants:
Nobuyuki Ueda, Osaka, JP;
Yojiro Kinoshita, Osaka, JP;
Toshiyuki Horiki, Nagano, JP;
Toru Aoyagi, Nagano, JP;
Inventors:
Nobuyuki Ueda, Osaka, JP;
Yojiro Kinoshita, Osaka, JP;
Toshiyuki Horiki, Nagano, JP;
Toru Aoyagi, Nagano, JP;
Assignees:
Kokuyo Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Takano Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C 1/024 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A simple arrangement of a chair allows transformation of the shape of a backrest. The chair has a transformable backrest and a backrest receiving member that supports a bottom end portion of the backrest in a slidable manner toward a certain direction and an operating lever to select and fix a position at which the backrest is slid and the backrest can be transformed in compliance with the position fixed by the operating lever.