US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Object lowering device and object raising and lowering device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,273, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Object lowering device and object raising and lowering device" was invented by Hironari Taya (Toyota, Japan), Keita Mizuguchi (Toyota, Japan), Norihisa Aoki (Toyota, Japan) and Shinichiro Noda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object lowering device comprises a pedestal and a swing. The swing includes a seat plate on which an object is placed, and is disposed on the pedestal. The pedestal is tilted with the lower corner of one side in the swinging direction of the pedestal as an axis, and the seat plate of the swing moves down to the grou...