ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,797, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Seat device" was invented by Shunya Ebina (Shizuoka, Japan), Masanobu Nakane (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yutaka Nagao (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat device (10) that can reliably and easily regulate a reclining operation with a simple and compact configuration, only in a specific state where the reclining operation of a seat (1) is problematic. It includes a reclining operation unit (100) that performs an operation of tilting a backrest (3) of the seat (1) by a reclining mechanism (50), a lock mechanism (120) that restrains the...