US Patent Issued to Advanced Suspension Technology on Oct. 20 for "Damper assembly including intake valve in fluid chamber" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,907, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Advanced Suspension Technology LLC (Northville, Mich.).

"Damper assembly including intake valve in fluid chamber" was invented by Stefan Deferme (Poort Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Bert Louis Jozef Diels (Geel, Belgium) and Gert Mangelschots (Heusden-Zolder, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damper includes an inner tube elongated along an axis, a piston slidably disposed in the inner tube, and an outer tube surrounding the inner tube. The inner tube and outer tube define a fluid chamber therebetween. The damper includes and intake assembly in the fluid chamber. The intake assembly includes a...