US Patent Issued to Shigeru, Subaru on July 7 for "Wind direction adjusting device for vehicle register" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,537, issued on July 7, was assigned to Shigeru Co. Ltd. (Ota, Japan) and Subaru Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wind direction adjusting device for vehicle register" was invented by Masakazu Okabe (Ota, Japan) and Mamoru Sugawara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind direction adjusting device includes a center fin on a downstream side extending in a direction crossing an upstream side fin, an operation knob and an elastic member. The operation knob is slidably attached to the center fin and interlocked with the upstream side fin. A direction of the upstream side fin can be adjusted by sliding the operation knob. The elastic member is disposed...