ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,068, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).
"Shock absorber" was invented by Kazumasa Tanaka (Tokyo), Naoki Yasukouchi (Tokyo) and Dawei Li (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a shock absorber that can use a single bracket regardless of difference in thickness of a knuckle bracket. A shock absorber according to the present invention includes: a shock absorber main body having an outer shell and a rod movably inserted into the outer shell; a knuckle bracket attached to an outer circumference on a bottom end side of the outer shell; and a bracket including a curved piece...