US Patent Issued to TACHI-S on March 11 for "Vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,631, issued on March 11, was assigned to TACHI-S Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Shunsuke Yamaoka (Tokyo) and Daiki Fumiiwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to cause no difficulty in an assembling process for assembling a resin plate to a seatback even if a plurality of bosses formed on the resin plate vary somewhat in dimension in a height direction, and also in order to prevent unpleasant noise, a vehicle seat is provided in which the resin plate of the seatback has a plurality of bosses formed thereon in positions facing the seatback frame, and under no load on the resin plate, some of the plurality...