US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RIKO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Upper support and method of manufacturing upper support" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,439, issued on July 21, was assigned to SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY Ltd. (Komaki, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Upper support and method of manufacturing upper support" was invented by Yuki Matsumoto (Komaki, Japan), Yuta Kamada (Komaki, Japan) and Tsutomu Iwai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper support including a bracket to be attached to a vehicle body side, and a support main body attached to a center portion of the bracket to receive a suspension component. The bracket includes upper and lower metal brackets having respective flanged parts overlapped with each other, and their overlapped surfaces...