ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,182, issued on June 3, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Conveyance seat" was invented by Takeshi Sato (Tochigi, Japan), Kazuya Miyawaki (Tochigi, Japan), Hidetaka Yonehara (Tochigi, Japan), Daichi Mochizuki (Tochigi, Japan), Hirohisa Abe (Tochigi, Japan), Yushiro Tachibana (Tokyo), Yasunobu Kawamoto (Tokyo), Daisuke Ohkawa (Tokyo) and Yusuke Ogata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The conveyance seat includes a back frame and a belt retractor that is attached to the back frame, and that retracts a seat belt. The back frame includes a rear frame having a plate shape and a front fr...