US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 22 for "Seat device for vehicle and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,569, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Seat device for vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Shogo Usui (Tokyo), Koji Hashimoto (Tokyo) and Masakazu Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a seat device for a vehicle and a control method thereof. The seat device for the vehicle includes: an electric device for moving a seat of the vehicle; a pinch detection unit that detects a pinched obstacle by detecting a load change of the electric device when the seat moves; an obstacle detection unit that detects whether the obstacle exists in a moving direction of the seat; and a...