US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on June 30 for "Spring member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,160, issued on June 30, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Spring member" was invented by Yoshio Yamada (Yokohama, Japan), Hironobu Imaizumi (Yokohama, Japan), Norihiro Tajima (Yokohama, Japan) and Shuji Takahashi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring member is provided between two pressed bodies facing each other in a first direction and includes base plates stacked in the first direction. Each base plate is provided with spring protrusions protruding toward either one pressed body of the two pressed bodies and pressing the two pressed bodies in directions such that the pressed bodies move awa...