US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on July 21 for "Seat back" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,354, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Seat back" was invented by Naoki Mitsuoka (Miyoshi, Japan) and Yukinori Sugiura (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This seat back includes a side airbag device that is attached to the outer portion of a back frame, and a side pad in which a cushion body elastically supporting a seater, a side cover covering the side pad, and a side resin member that is provided to the pad rear surface of the side pad and is responsible for supporting the side pad, fastening an end of the side cover, and fixing to the back frame. The cushion body is provided s...