US Patent Issued to Nippon Kayaku on Nov. 3 for "Safety device and flight vehicle provided with parachute having an umbrella body formed of one or more gores" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,426, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nippon Kayaku K.K. (Tokyo).

"Safety device and flight vehicle provided with parachute having an umbrella body formed of one or more gores" was invented by Hiroshi Nakamura (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parachute includes an umbrella body including an umbrella top portion and an umbrella edge portion, and a plurality of lines. A portion along a circumferential direction in a range from the umbrella edge portion to a position on the way to the umbrella top portion is folded in a triple fold in the circumferential direction of the umbrella body and fixed by sewing to form a fold po...