Patent ID: 8091958

Claim:
A chair, comprising: a seat body that includes a seat part having a seating face for a person to sit on and a backrest for a person to lean against; a front leg, a first end of which is attached to an underside region of the seat part in such a manner that the first end of the front leg is capable of being rotated in relation to the seat body, the underside region being an opposite side of the seating face; a rear leg, a first end of which is attached to the underside region at a position closer to a backrest side than a position at which the first end of the front leg is attached in such a manner that the first end of the rear leg is capable of being rotated in relation to the seat body; and a leg receiver configured to be arranged on a floor surface, wherein a second end of the front leg is rotatably attached to the leg receiver, and a second end of the rear leg is rotatably attached to the leg receiver at a position closer to the backrest side than a position at which the second end of the front leg is attached; wherein the seat body is capable of being swung between a front end position and a rear end position, the front end position is a position in which each of the front leg and the rear leg are swung to a predetermined end position in a forward direction which goes from the rear leg toward the front leg, the rear end position is a position in which each of the front leg and the rear leg are swung to a predetermined end position in a rearward direction which is opposite to the forward direction, and the backrest is upright in a substantially vertical direction at the front end position; and wherein a distance between a rotation axis at the first end of the front leg and a rotation axis at the second end of the front leg is longer than a distance between a rotation axis at the first end of the rear leg and a rotation axis at the second end of the rear leg.