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US 12,419,424 · App. 18/452,234 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Chair and one-piece chair back thereof

Inventor: Teng-Jen Yang (Taichung, TW)
A47C7/40A47C5/12A47C7/42A47C7/16
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Patent No.
US 12,419,424
App. No.
18/452,234
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A chair with a chair back having a frame and a backrest. The backrest is connected to a bottom frame portion of the frame and two side frame portions at two opposite ends of the bottom frame portion by injection molding for a user to lean against. A hardness of the backrest is lower than a hardness of the frame, and the frame is provided with two supporting portions for correspondingly supporting two sides of the user's waist. Thereby, the components with different hardness are capable of forming the integrally formed chair back, and enabling the chair back to be both supportive and comfortable for leaning against.

Claims (14)

1. A one-piece chair back applicable for supporting an upper body of a user, the one-piece chair back comprising:

a frame comprising a bottom frame portion, two side frame portions connected at two opposite ends of the bottom frame portion, and an accommodating space jointly formed by the bottom frame portion and the side frame portions; and

a backrest disposed in the accommodating space and connected to the bottom frame portion and the side frame portions by injection molding, the backrest being provided for the upper body of the user to lean against, and a hardness of the backrest being lower than a hardness of the frame;

wherein a first inner side of each of the side frame portions of the frame facing the backrest is provided with a supporting portion, extension directions of the supporting portions are opposite, the backrest is provided with a notch respectively on two opposite second inner sides facing the side frame portions, the notches correspond to the supporting portions.

2. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising two supporting legs, each of the two supporting legs being connected to the frame through injection molding, and a hardness of the supporting legs being higher than a hardness of the frame.

3. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the supporting legs are made of nylon and glass fiber, and a content of the glass fiber is 7-50% by weight.

4. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a fixing slot is provided in an end surface of one end of each of the supporting legs away from the frame, and the fixing slot is provided for inserting a chair seat.

5. A chair, comprising the chair back as claimed in claim 2 and a chair seat connected to the supporting legs of the chair back.

6. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the frame and the supporting legs are made of the same materials but in different proportions.

7. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the frame is made of nylon and glass fiber, and a content of the glass fiber is 7-30% by weight.

8. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the backrest is made of nylon or polyether based thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU).

9. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the supporting portion is provided with at least one first vent hole, and the backrest is provided with at least one second vent hole.

10. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the backrest is sequentially divided into a first supporting area, a second supporting area, and a third supporting area from top to bottom, the first supporting area, the second supporting area and the third supporting area are each respectively provided with a second vent hole, and the second vent hole of the second supporting area is smaller than the second vent holes of the first supporting area and the third supporting area.

11. The one-piece chair back as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a distance is provided between the two supporting portions of the frame.

Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 17653971 · Mar 8, 2022
Related Publication 20230397731A1 · Dec 14, 2023
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