US Patent Issued to Yanfeng International Automotive Technology on March 17 for "Seat headrest and vehicle seat" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,765, issued on March 17, was assigned to Yanfeng International Automotive Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Seat headrest and vehicle seat" was invented by Yineng Shen (Shanghai), Xinze Zhang (Shanghai), Xiaocui Zhang (Shanghai), Aiping Zhang (Shanghai) and Kunjia Gan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a seat headrest device comprising a fixed base (30), a headrest (20) and a headrest electric motor (40). The headrest electric motor (40) drives the headrest (20) to move relative to the fixed base (30) through a composite motion mechanism comprising a screw-nut mechanism (70) and a pinion-rack me...