US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on May 12 for "Multi-degree anti-vibration unit" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,742, issued on May 12, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Multi-degree anti-vibration unit" was invented by Xingjian Jing (Sha Tin, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anti-vibration units are provided for vibration suppression in multiple directions. The anti-vibration units may have an X-shaped structure as part of its support structure. The anti-vibration units can work for ultra-low frequency vibration isolation in three directions in a passive manner. The anti-vibration units can achieve a flexible nonlinear stiffness, which contains zero or quasi-zero stiffness, negative stiffness and positi...