ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,430, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan) and SEIREN Co. LTD. (Fukui, Japan).
"Skin material" was invented by Motohiko Kuroda (Kanagawa, Japan), Moe Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kyosuke Takeshita (Fukui, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a skin material excellent in tactile sensation.The present invention provides a skin material having at least a topcoat layer, wherein an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a surface of the topcoat layer is 12 micro metre or less, an average spacing S of convex portions of the surface of the topcoat layer is 250 to...