ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,281, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KURABE INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Heater unit and vehicular seat" was invented by Hirotaka Fujii (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional heater units have a problem in that both ventilation characteristics and mechanical strength cannot be satisfied at the same time. A heater unit includes a base material and a cord-shaped heater, the cord-shaped heater being disposed on and fixed to the base material, in which the base material is made by combining a structural yarn that is disposed in an approximately planar shape and a nonwoven fabric with each other, and ...