US Patent Issued to KYB on April 7 for "Solenoid, solenoid valve, and shock absorber" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,546, issued on April 7, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).

"Solenoid, solenoid valve, and shock absorber" was invented by Yoshifumi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Tomoyasu Abe (Tokyo), Toshihiro Mori (Tokyo), Naoaki Danshita (Kyoto, Japan), Masatoshi Iyatani (Kyoto, Japan) and Kohei Doi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solenoid includes: a coil; a first fixed iron core disposed on an axial first-end side of the coil; a second fixed iron core disposed on an axial second-end side of the coil with a gap from the first fixed iron core; a tubular first movable iron core disposed between the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iro...