US Patent Issued to Advanced Suspension Technology on Sept. 8 for "Damper bumper cap with collector" (Belgian, Polish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,683, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Advanced Suspension Technology LLC (Northville, Mich.).

"Damper bumper cap with collector" was invented by Tomasz Gorski (Laziska Gorne, Poland), Koen Joseph R. Spaas (Borgloon, Belgium) and Mikel Arriaga (Bilbao, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damper includes a piston coupled to a piston rod slidably positioned in a damper tube. A piston rod seal is positioned radially between the piston rod and a first end of the damper tube. A cap is positioned over the first end of the damper tube and includes a side wall positioned in contact with and extending annularly about the first end of the ...