US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on July 21 for "Bending structure body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,113, issued on July 21, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Bending structure body" was invented by Takafumi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Hotoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Inaba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a multi-joint bending structure body that makes it possible to obtain a structure capable of making a small-radius turn. The present invention comprises: a plurality of first bendable parts 9 and second bendable parts 11 that can elastically bend with respect to the axial direction; and an intermediate part 13 that is positioned between a fir...