ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,434, issued on May 5, was assigned to NAKANISHI METAL WORKS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Strut bearing device and vehicle strut suspension" was invented by Yasuhiro Narazaki (Osaka, Japan), Shogo Ikeguchi (Osaka, Japan), Shogo Fukada (Osaka, Japan), Kohei Shibata (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Yano (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first lower-case wall surface faces an axial gap. A second lower-case wall surface extends toward a radially outer side from an upper end of the first lower-case wall surface. A third lower-case wall surface extends upward from an end of the second lower-case wall surface in the radially outer side. A ...