US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Oct. 27 for "Bumper cap and shock absorber" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,731, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Bumper cap and shock absorber" was invented by Takuya Hakoishi (Hitachinaka, Japan), Shinichi Kagawa (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Eiichi Komori (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a bumper cap to be attached to a shock absorber main body, and includes a cover part having an opening at one end, having a bottom part and a through hole penetrating the bottom part at another end, and configured to cover the shock absorber main body, and a plurality of protruding parts protruding from the bottom part of the cover part toward the opening s...