US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on July 7 for "Seat back" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,725, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Seat back" was invented by Naoya Hirukawa (Aichi-ken, Japan), Kosuke Kito (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Eito Yoshikawa (Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat back includes a seat pad, and a seat frame supporting the seat pad from a pad back side. The seat frame includes a wire frame supporting a pad lower portion of the seat pad from the pad back side. The seat pad includes a pad bending back portion that extends from the pad lower portion toward a seat rear upper while covering the wire frame from a seat lower side. The wire frame includes a fir...