US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 3 for "Vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,176, issued on June 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Kazuki Maruo (Kariya, Japan), Isamu Adachi (Kariya, Japan) and Tomoki Yamashita (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle seat includes: a seat cushion; a seat back; a lifter link mechanism wherein the seat cushion is displaced by a sector gear being displaced; and a speed reducer-equipped motor including a pinion gear engaging with the sector gear; and a first and second restriction portions that stop the rotation of the pinion gear to one side. The sector gear is displaced to one side by the pinion gear being rotated to...