US Patent Issued to INOAC on Nov. 4 for "Clip holding unit, molding mold and method for manufacturing seat pad" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,409, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INOAC Corp. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Clip holding unit, molding mold and method for manufacturing seat pad" was invented by Masato Matsumoto (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a clip holding unit 50 to be used during a foam molding of a seat pad 20, and the seat pad 20 includes a clip 24 used for attaching a seat cover 18 to the seat pad 20. The clip holding unit 50 is provided in a lower mold 42 of a molding mold 40, and holds the clip 24 during the foam molding. The clip holding unit 50 includes a locking portion 54 to be sandwiched between a pair of locking pieces 30 of th...