ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,377, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Shock absorber" was invented by Nao Kadota (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yuka Kubotera (Hitachinaka, Japan), Takashi Nakagawa (Hitachinaka, Japan), Dustin M. Schroeder (Raymond, Ohio) and Masayuki Tsutsui (Raymond, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock absorber includes a cylinder, a sleeve provided so as to surround the outer circumferential surface of the cylinder, the cylinder formed of a different material from a material for the cylinder, first and second springs provided along the outer circumferential surface of th...