US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING, SUBARU on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,573, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, 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: "A vehicle seat includes a pad main body configuring part of seat cushion pad, a slide pad that configures another part of the seat cushion pad and that approaches or moves away from the pad main body by sliding in a seat front-rear direction, and a flow path that is formed at an opposite side of th...