US Patent Issued to NIFCO on July 14 for "Shock absorbing device and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,296, issued on July 14, was assigned to NIFCO INC. (Yokosuka, Japan).

"Shock absorbing device and vehicle" was invented by Yasuhiro Watanabe (Yokosuka, Japan) and Shigeki Sakamoto (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock absorbing device according to one embodiment includes an elastic member and an attenuation device. The elastic member is compressed by a force transmitted from the exterior of a vehicle through a front grill which is a vehicle exterior component, and returns the front grill to the vehicle exterior by means of the restoration force against the compression. The attenuation device attenuates the speed of ...