US Patent Issued to JIAXING REST FURNITURE & APPLIANCE on July 28 for "Self-locking mechanism for folding sofa" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,689, issued on July 28, was assigned to JIAXING REST FURNITURE & APPLIANCE Co. LTD. (Jiaxing, China).

"Self-locking mechanism for folding sofa" was invented by Jiguan Chen (Jiaxing, China), Bin Chen (Jiaxing, China), Qiangqiang Wu (Jiaxing, China), Baoli Zhang (Jiaxing, China) and Chong Ma (Jiaxing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-locking mechanism for a folding sofa is provided. The self-locking mechanism includes a link assembly, a self-locking rivet, and a limit rotating rod, where the link assembly includes one end pivoted to a front sofa cushion and the other end pivoted to a fixed base frame of a sofa frame; the fro...