US Patent Issued to LEAR on Oct. 27 for "Laser-welded conduit on inflatable bladder carrier" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,937, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LEAR Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Laser-welded conduit on inflatable bladder carrier" was invented by Grzegorz Kasperczyk (Warsaw, Poland), Samuel Blair (Rochester, Mich.) and David Abdella (Farmington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes arranging at least one laser-weldable conduit along a contact interface with a laser-weldable polymer film layer of a seat inflatable bladder carrier, directing a laser beam at the laser-weldable polymer film layer, and moving the laser beam along a welding path that intersects the contact interface. The laser beam penetrates through the lase...