US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Feb. 11 for "Cable take-up device, and flat cable routing structure for slide seat" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,018, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC. (Inukami-gun, Japan).

"Cable take-up device, and flat cable routing structure for slide seat" was invented by Masahiro Okumura (Inukami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cable take-up device for a flexible flat cable routed for a slide seat slidably supported so as to be movable forward and backward along a fixed rail fixed to the vehicle cabin floor. The cable take-up device includes: a take-up housing part that takes up a housed portion in a drawable manner and houses it inside with a front end porti...