US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING, SUBARU on Aug. 11 for "Seatback pad and vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,282, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Seatback pad and vehicle seat" was invented by Kenzo Yasuda (Yokohama, Japan), Yosuke Ishiyama (Tokyo), Masato Fukushima (Tokyo) and Shumpei Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seatback pad that configures a pad member of a seatback of a vehicle seat and that is covered by a cover. The seatback pad includes plural grooves that extend along a seat left-right direction formed at a lower portion of a back face of the seatback pad facing toward a lumber support device installed at the seatback, with the plural grooves bei...