COMBINATION COMPRISING A SEAT, A PORTABLE DEVICE WHICH COMPRISES A MOVEMENT SENSOR AND AN EVALUATION DEVICE AND A METHOD WHICH CAN BE CARRIED OUT USING THE COMBINATION

• US 20160095442A1
• Filed: 10/02/2015
• Published: 04/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wilkhahn Wilkening + Hahne GmbH + Co.
• Original Assignee: Wilkhahn Wilkening + Hahne GmbH + Co.
• Inventors: Gehner, Carsten
• Application Number:
  US14/873,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20160095442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/02 Reclining or easy chairs supports for parts of body A47C7/36, A47C7/50, A47C7/54
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 15/004 Seating furniture for specified purposes not covered by main groups A47C1/00 or A47C9/00
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 3/00 Chairs characterised by structural features; Chairs or stools with rotatable or vertically-adjustable seats A47C1/00, A47C4/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 3/18 Chairs or stools with rotatable seat adjustable in height by rotation A47C3/24
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/40 for the back
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/72 Adaptations for incorporating lamps, radio sets, bars, telephones, ventilation, heating or cooling arrangements or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

A combination of a seat and a portable device including at least one movement sensor and an evaluation device is characterized by the movement sensor automatically identifying movements of a person on the seat, or movements of the seat, and the evaluation device establishing from the identified movements a seat movement profile and/or control commands for a computer.

Claims

1. In combination, a seat and a portable device including at least one movement sensor and an evaluation device, the combination characterised in that the movement sensor identifies seat-guided movements of a person or the seat and the evaluation device establishes from the identified movements a seat movement profile and/or control commands for a computer.

2. The combination according to claim 1, characterised in that the evaluation device is integrated in the device or the computer.

3. The combination according to claim 1, characterised in that a period of uninterrupted use of the seat by the person or a calendar period is defined as an establishment period for the seat movement profile.

4. The combination according to claim 3, characterised in that the seat movement profile is output in the form of an evaluation which summarises the establishment time period.

5. The combination according to claim 4, characterised in that, when a value falls below and/or exceeds one or more limit values of the evaluation, a signal is output.

6. The combination according to claim 4, characterised in that the evaluation comprises a metabolic equivalent.

7. The combination according to claim 1, characterised in that an identification of a use of the seat by the person is carried out by means of identification of specific movements.

8. The combination according to claim 1, characterised in that the seat has a use sensor for identification of a use of the seat by the person.

9. The combination according to claim 8, characterised in that the use sensor is connected to the evaluation device so as to transmit signals.

10. The combination according to claim 8, characterised in that the distance between the use sensor and the device can be established by means of the use sensor.

11. The combination according to claim 1, characterised in that inclination movements about a sagittal axis, a transverse axis and/or a longitudinal axis of the person are identified and used to establish the seat movement profile and/or the control commands.

12. The combination according to claim 11, characterised in that the inclination movements are established as a path sum and/or angular sum.

13. The combination according to claim 3, characterised in that a statistical variance of the movements identified in the establishment time period is included in the seat movement profile.

14. The combination according to claim 3, characterised in that a temporal distribution of the movements identified in the establishment time period is included in the seat movement profile.

15. Combination according to claim 3, characterised in that an averaged acceleration of the movements identified in the establishment time period is included in the seat movement profile.

16. The combination according to claim 1, characterised in that occurrences of asymmetry in the movement sequences are identified and included in the seat movement profile.

17. The combination according to claim 1, characterised in that the seat has a seat member and a frame which can be displaced along one or more axes and/or which are rotatably connected to each other about one or more axes.

18. The combination according to claim 17, characterised in that, when the seat movement profile is established, only movements along and/or about the axis/axes are taken into account and/or identified movements of the person are associated with assumed movements of the seat member relative to the frame along and/or about this/these axis/axes and these assumed movements are included in the seat movement profile.

19. The combination according to claim 18, characterised in that scatterings of the movements about the neutral positions of the seat are included in the seat movement profile.

20. The combination according to claim 1, characterised in that the seat has a retention device for releasably fixing the device.

21. A method for producing a seat movement profile of a person on a seat and/or for controlling a computer, wherein, by means of a device which is carried by the person, seat-guided movements of the person or the seat are identified and the seat movement profile and/or the control commands is/are established therefrom.