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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2008
Lewis Mark Epstein, San Mateo, CA (US);
Kyle J. Doerksen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Robert Adams, Mountain View, CA (US);
Larry Cheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian Joseph Mason, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thomas Overthun, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd Allen Pelman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vivek Mohan Rao, San Francisco, CA (US);
David John Rinaldis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Lukas Martin Scherrer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark D. Siminoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Susanne Stage, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joerg Christoph Student, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Nolan Ludwig, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Brett Robert Kincaid, Ada, MI (US);
Lewis Mark Epstein, San Mateo, CA (US);
Kyle J. Doerksen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Robert Adams, Mountain View, CA (US);
Larry Cheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian Joseph Mason, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thomas Overthun, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd Allen Pelman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vivek Mohan Rao, San Francisco, CA (US);
David John Rinaldis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Lukas Martin Scherrer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark D. Siminoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Susanne Stage, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joerg Christoph Student, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Nolan Ludwig, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Brett Robert Kincaid, Ada, MI (US);
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
A conferencing assembly for use with at least one computer, the assembly including a table top forming a table top opening, a leg support structure, a display screen supported adjacent the top surface, a switcher for controlling input to the display screen, a plurality of handsets, each hand set including a selector button usable to send a signal to the switcher thereby causing the switcher to link a computer associated with the selector button to the display, a plurality of handset cables, each handset cable having first and second ends linked to the switcher and an associated selector button, respectively, for passing signals from the selector buttons to the switcher, a take up assembly including a separate weight for each of the handset cables, the take up assembly disposed below the top member and aligned with the top opening, each handset cable linked to an associated weight, each weight applying a force tending to pull the second end of the associated handset cable into the opening.