US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Sound absorbing device for moving body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,597, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sound absorbing device for moving body" was invented by Shunji Suzuki (Wako, Japan), Hayato Kojima (Wako, Japan) and Yuma Tsuboi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound absorbing device for a moving body includes a resonance tube, a variable elastic membrane, and an adjustment part. The resonance tube has a pipeline, one end portion of which is disposed to face an indoor space. The variable elastic membrane has one surface disposed so as to face an indoor space and the other surface disposed so as to face an internal space of other end portion of the r...