In recent years, ergonomic chairs become more and more popular. There are a variety of shapes and features of ergonomic chairs that make it difficult for consumers to choose from. As an office furniture brand, WEWORTH deals with ergonomic office chairs every day. We hope that by giving you an analysis of the structural characteristics and functions of ergonomic chairs to provide technical guidance you want to purchase a suitable ergonomic office chair.
Furniture and people are particularly close, especially office chairs. And even office workers use office chairs more than they use bedtime. In addition to considering important factors such as health and comfort, the design of an office chair needs to be more responsive to consumers' demands for aesthetics and to be conveyed through furniture form, material or color, and other styling elements. We take office chair components as the research object and use basic principles and methods to analyze the relationship between the elements of office chair form design.
Office chairs are basically composed of a headrest, backrest, armrests, lumbar support, seat cushion, a tilt mechanism, casters, etc. The basic function of the chair is to support people’s bodies no matter at work or rest state. So the office chair has a tilt and lift function to achieve work, rest, lunch break, and other functions.
Headrest function classification can be distinguished as the fixed headrest, 1D headrest, 2D headrest, and 3D headrest.
*Fixed headrest: Directly locked in the back of the seat, without any adjustment function.
*1D headrest: Headrest can be lifted separately.
*2D headrest: Headrest can be adjusted in two different ways.
*3D headrest: Headrest can be adjusted in three different ways, including lift up&down, revolving, and tilting.
The armrest also can be distinguished as a fixed armrest, 1D armrest, 2D armrest, 3D armrest, and even 4D armrest.
*Fixed armrest: No function, can not adjust.
*1D armrest: Armrest can be adjusted up and down.
*2D armrest: Armrest can be adjusted in two different ways.
*3D armrest: armrest can be adjusted in three different ways.
*4D armrest: armrest can be adjusted in three different ways.
The material of the backrest of the chair includes:
*Cotton back which is made of plastic shell, wooden board, and sponge.
*Mesh back which is made of mesh, plastic frame, and aluminum frame.
*Plastic back which is made of a pure plastic frame.
Materials of lumbar support can be divided into:
*plastic lumbar support
*PU lumbar support
*sponge lumbar support
*airbag lumbar support
The layout of lumbar support can be classified as:
*Horizontal type: Lumbar support connect on both sides of the horizontal chair.
*Longitudinal type: Lumbar support connects the longitudinal middle of the chair.
*Hidden type: Lumbar support separately connect both sides of the chair.
Cushion material includes:
*Cotton seat: Made of plastic shell, wood, and sponge.
*Mesh seat: Made of mesh, plastic frame, and aluminum frame.
*Plastic seat: Made with a pure plastic frame.
The mechanism is the core component of an office chair. Many functions of office chairs are dependent on the mechanism. WEWORTH usually has a butterfly mechanism.
Shape & Use:
*Five-star feet: One of the common accessories for office chairs.
*Bow iron frame: Commonly used in the conference guest chairs.
*Four-legged iron frame: Commonly used in training chairs or leisure chairs.
*Four-star feet: Commonly used in chairs without tilting or small angle tilting function. Applied to bar chairs, negotiation chairs, etc.
*Ring-type iron frame: Commonly used in meeting chairs or training chairs.
Materials of the chair base:
*Plastic: High-cost performance, high plasticity of shape, high development cost.
*Iron pipe: The cost is close to plastic, has poor plasticity, slow mass production, and low development cost.
*Aluminum alloy: Strong texture, high-end style, high plasticity of modeling, high development costs, the price is higher than plastic.
*Wood: Often used with the iron frame, has a high cost, poor plasticity, slow mass production, and low development costs.
Hope this article can help you to choose an ideal chair. A suitable chair can make people more effort to maintain a healthy sitting posture, which makes the back evenly stressed, relieves the muscles and joints fatigue brought about by improper sitting posture, but also to improve efficiency.
On the other hand, a good ergonomic chair also can not be sedentary. It can only play the effect of reducing fatigue. So we also need to develop good habits, control the sitting time, and try to stand up and walk around.
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