US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on May 5 for "Luggage system and vehicle including same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,348, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Luggage system and vehicle including same" was invented by Rina Mukai (Aichi, Japan) and Tokuyuki Nishikawa (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adjusted is a stop position of a slide bar in accordance with luggage placed on a luggage space. In a case where a detection part configured to detect whether or not luggage exists has detected that the luggage exists, a controller of a luggage system controls a driving mechanism configured to drive a slide bar, to cause the slide bar to move in a first direction and adjusts a stop position of the slide bar in t...