US Patent Issued to ASHIMORI INDUSTRY on June 23 for "Locking tongue for seat belt and seat belt device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,080, issued on June 23, was assigned to ASHIMORI INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Locking tongue for seat belt and seat belt device" was invented by Toru Hirai (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoe Nakayama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking tongue for a seat belt of a vehicle according to one embodiment includes: a tongue body including a main wall and a pair of side walls; a clamp member slidable in a direction toward the main wall; a rotating member rotatably supported by the side walls; and an urging member that urges the clamp member in a direction away from the main wall. In a normal state, a gap larger than a thicknes...