US Patent Issued to NHK Spring, SUBARU on Sept. 23 for "Cushion skin, seat cushion, and vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,686, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cushion skin, seat cushion, and vehicle seat" was invented by Syunji Takazawa (Yokohama, Japan), Hideki Hasumi (Yokohama, Japan), Atsushi Kageyama (Yokohama, Japan), Fumito Kitanaka (Tokyo) and Kenji Nagumo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cushion skin, left and right side surface skin front portions are fixed to a cushion frame of the seat cushion. The left and right side surface skin rear portions are respectively connected to the left and right side surface skin front portions, and each have a lower extending portio...