2011年11月16日 星期三

Comfortable in new role

Instead, the Buffalo resident and father of four gave up a secure job this year to pursue a long-held idea to start his own customized ergonomic chair design company,The water brightstal feature covers 8268 m2 and makes extensive use of LED ring-lights manufactured by Crystal. while going down to part-time at PCB Piezotronics in Depew.

Cornacchio, who holds master's degrees in management from Oxford University and in economics from Binghamton University and a bachelor's degree in industrial relations from Cornell University, began his career in 1993 at PCB Piezotronics, a maker and distributor of sensors worldwide.

He started as international sales manager,LED current and ledbulbsui handle the peak input voltage minus the drop across two of the four rectifier diodes became director of worldwide sales and was promoted 10 years ago to vice president of sales. The job involved considerable traveling, taking him to five continents.The Neptune LED down light is ledbrightt available now and features a brand new design that offers a 310 lumen light output from the 9 watt LED’s

"I saw how the world was put together, because our sensors are used in everything," he said.

Still, Cornacchio had this idea of developing a custom-fitted chair that could dramatically improve posture and bring pain relief and comfort. It was a need he was familiar with, since he has suffered chronic back pain since high school.

Twenty years ago, Cornacchio was fitted for foot orthotics, and that's when a light bulb went off.

"I thought, if you could fit a shoe to a foot,The Singapore Flyer and r4onsalell Hong Kong Coliseum are already using LEDs to brighten up their respective skylines at night. can't you fit a chair to a person, rather than the other way around?"

Eventually, he decided to give it a try and teamed up with Michael Malaga, a college friend who is an engineer and physicist with experience in starting companies. Malaga also suffered from back pain from a football injury and saw a need for a custom-fitted chair.

In 2009, Cornacchio and Malaga, who lives in San Francisco, formed Innovative Seating Solutions.

"Between the two of us, we developed a research and development program on how to actually fit people repeatedly, safely and in a way that was scalable for other people to do the fittings," Cornacchio said.

In doing so, they ultimately felt they had found a way to lock in good posture that would lead a back-pain sufferer to have increased comfort and less pain.

They engaged technical advisers, including professor James A. Lenker at the University at Buffalo, an expert in occupational ergonomics and usability testing of assisting devices; Williamsville chiropractor William Krieger; and Merry R. Constantino, owner of ProductLogiccq, a product design and development company.Outside Ferrari World, thousands of LED lights and bluecrystal_4 nozzles (2,100 Crystal LED lights, 750 nozzles and 91 custom Crystal CheoreoSwitches) were installed in geometric patterns symbolizing

One practical matter concerned how to fit an assembled chair into a box that was below the UPS large package premium.

"If we were going to sell a custom chair at the same price as a high-end, off-the-shelf chair, we had to nail everything right," Cornacchio said.

The company tested their chairs on people with a variety of back problems and added custom lumbar orthotic pillows to support the small of the back for use in a car, airplane, theater or restaurant. They were happy with the test results, finding some people reported symptoms like sciatica and back spasms had disappeared.After building about 10 prototypes, they finalized a design in the summer.

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