US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR on July 7 for "Vehicle damper" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,527, issued on July 7, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Vehicle damper" was invented by Kohei Kubota (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle damper includes: a movable member that moves with linear motion according to a load applied from a wheel; a conversion member that converts the linear motion of the movable member into rotational motion; an electric motor having a rotor that rotates in conjunction with the rotational motion; a motor housing that houses the electric motor; and a damper mount housing that is fixed to a vehicle body and connected to the motor housing via a first elastic member. The vehi...