US Patent Issued to NHK Spring on July 8 for "Slide device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,081, issued on July 8, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Slide device" was invented by Kenichi Katsube (Yokohama, Japan), Tsuyoshi Matsuzawa (Yokohama, Japan), Shinya Sawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Junichi Nakayama (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slide device including: a fixed rail; a movable rail; a belt-shaped cover member including a coupling plate coupled to the movable rail at an end portion of the belt-shaped cover member, the belt-shaped cover member closing an opening groove of the fixed rail between a longitudinal end portion of the fixed rail and the movable rail; and a slide cover that c...