US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RIKO on July 21 for "Vibration damping device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,215, issued on July 21, was assigned to SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY Ltd. (Komaki, Japan).

"Vibration damping device" was invented by Hirotaka Matsui (Komaki, Japan), Mutsumi Muraoka (Komaki, Japan) and Satoshi Umemura (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration damping device including first and second attachment members connected by a main rubber elastic body. The second attachment member includes a main rubber outer member having a first tubular part fastened to an outer peripheral end of the main rubber elastic body, and a drawing fitting having a second tubular part attached externally about the first tubular part of the ...