ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,382, issued on April 8, was assigned to DELTA KOGYO Co. LTD. (Aki-Gun, Japan).
"Seat suspension mechanism" was invented by Etsunori Fujita (Hiroshima, Japan), Soichi Makita (Hiroshima, Japan), Shinichiro Maeda (Hiroshima, Japan), Shogo Masumura (Hiroshima, Japan) and Masaru Oka (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body weight adjustment mechanism for automatic adjustment to a balanced point is provided to improve vibration absorption characteristics and impact absorption characteristics. A torsion angle of a lower frame-side torsion bar when an upper frame is at a balanced point is found in advance, a torsion angle of t...