US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING, SUBARU on Aug. 4 for "Vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,904, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Yukinori Mikita (Yokohama, Japan), Kensuke Yoshiga (Yokohama, Japan), Fumito Kitanaka (Tokyo) and Masafumi Takano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes a hinge cover that is disposed at aside portion of a seat cushion and has an opening through which a recliner shaft of a recliner provided between the seat cushion and a seat back passes, and a reclining lever that is disposed at an outer side in a seat width direction with respect to the hinge cover and is rotatable about the rec...