ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,943, issued on March 17, was assigned to KYB Motorcycle Suspension Co. Ltd. (Gifu, Japan) and KYB Corp. (Tokyo).
"Front fork" was invented by Hidetoshi Sugawara (Gifu, Japan), Naoki Ito (Tokyo), Takumi Hayashiguchi (Tokyo) and Hirokatsu Maeda (Gifu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A front fork according to the present invention includes: a fork main body including a vehicle body side tube and an axle side tube; a cap body attached to a vehicle body side tube; a cylinder provided in the axle side tube; a cylindrical rod axially movably inserted into the cylinder; an electric device housed in the cylinder; and a wire that is inse...