US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle system and vibration generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,550, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle system and vibration generation device" was invented by Kunio Sato (Miyagi, Japan), Toshiki Tachioka (Miyagi, Japan) and Kaede Mochida (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a seat of a vehicle, and a vibration generation device provided in the seat. The vibration generation device includes a housing, a diaphragm supported on the housing, an actuator attached to at least one of the housing and the diaphragm, and a sensor, including a detection electrode, and configured to detect a user approaching the detection electrode. T...