ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,817, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).
"Electronically controlled internal damper" was invented by Jongsun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wonbeen Im (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronically controlled internal damper includes an outer housing reciprocated in a cylinder and partitioning the cylinder into an upper chamber and a lower chamber, an inner housing disposed inside the outer housing and forming a main flow path which makes the upper chamber and the lower chamber of the cylinder communicate with each other, a main poppet disposed in the inner housing to ...