US Patent Issued to AISIN on Dec. 2 for "Step apparatus for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,823, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Step apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Masashi Miwa (Fujisawa, Japan), Atsushi Muramatsu (Fujisawa, Japan), Natsuki Ito (Fujisawa, Japan), Takahisa Kobayashi (Fujisawa, Japan), Norio Kato (Fujisawa, Japan) and Kimihiro Kinoshita (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A step apparatus for a vehicle includes: an arm rotatably provided on a base; and a step supported by the arm and movably provided, by rotation of the arm, between a deployed position and a stowed position located at an inner side of a vehicle width direction with respect to the deployed po...