US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on June 10 for "Steering device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,463, issued on June 10, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Steering device" was invented by Yuki Togawa (Hiroshima, Japan), Yuki Hori (Hiroshima, Japan), Gaku Ikeyama (Hiroshima, Japan), Shuji Sanagi (Hiroshima, Japan), Toshihiko Mori (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroyuki Fuke (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuyuki Tanaka (Hiroshima, Japan) and Daito Nakano (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering device comprises a tilt-telescopic mechanism to switch between its tilt-and-axial move allowed state and its prohibited state. The tilt-telescopic mechanism comprises a pair of side wall portions provided on both sides, ...