US Patent Issued to NHK Spring, SUBARU on June 23 for "Seat back panel, seat back frame and vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,028, issued on June 23, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Seat back panel, seat back frame and vehicle seat" was invented by Takumi Arai (Yokohama, Japan), Takuma Oki (Yokohama, Japan), Yusuke Yadomaru (Tokyo), Masami Handa (Tokyo) and Toshimitu Nishio (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat back panel includes a panel main body and a separate panel. The panel main body is disposed at a posterior portion of a seat back of a vehicle seat. The panel main body structures a portion of a main body portion of a seat back frame. An aperture is formed at a location of the panel main body th...