Control of powered furniture
CA 2349362 A1 · Owner: Colclough, Stephen Henry · Inventors: Watkins, Ulland Islwyn; Colclough, Stephen Henry
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Furniture (typically a chair or bed) is powered to be movable between a first and a second configuration. A detector arrangement detects the presence of foreign bodies in the vicinity of the furniture piece the detector , arrangement being connected to a controller arranged to modify the output of the driver driving the furniture where a foreign body is detected.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 2, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 2, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 2, 2021.
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Sources & verification
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