ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,151, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Vehicle seat" was invented by Shunichiro Osa (Yokohama, Japan) and Pham Quoc Trieu (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat including: a seat back that is tiltable forward around a reclining rod; a support rod that extends along the seat width direction and is supported at a support member that is attached to a vehicle body floor part; and a coupling mechanism that couples the support rod with the reclining rod, the coupling mechanism is configured to attain: a first coupling state that is a coupling state when the seat back is at a ...