US Patent Issued to TS TECH on July 22 for "Vehicle seat and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,302, issued on July 22, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Asaka, Japan).

"Vehicle seat and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Jinichi Tanabe (Tochigi, Japan), Tatsuki Nonaka (Tochigi, Japan), Atsushi Yamabe (Tochigi, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Sato (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a vehicle seat which makes the load from the airbag more likely to be concentrated on a weakened part of a skin member, a vehicle seat provided with a seat cushion constituting a seating surface and a seat back constituting a backrest includes: a seat back frame forming a structural member of the seat back; an airbag module...