US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING, SUBARU on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,063, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Kenzo Yasuda (Yokohama, Japan), Kazuhiro Toyoshima (Yokohama, Japan), Yosuke Ishiyama (Tokyo), Masato Fukushima (Tokyo), Takahide Takeuchi (Tokyo) and Kento Koshiishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle seat, a flow path is formed between a pad main body of a seat cushion pad and a seal member, with the flow path reaching to an opposing face of the pad main body opposing the slide pad, and air inside the flow path being moved by an air moving machine. A seat cushion cover includes a porou...