ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,104, issued on May 19, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Impact absorbing member" was invented by Yutaka Mikazuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an impact absorbing member that absorbs an impact by being crushed in an axial direction, the impact absorbing member having a cylindrical shape extending along the axial direction, in which when a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction of the impact absorbing member is set to a first cross section, and a cross section defined by extension lines of a plurality of sides in the first cross section is set to a second cross section, the second cross...