US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Riko on Sept. 29 for "Cylindrical mount" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,974, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).

"Cylindrical mount" was invented by Junji Abe (Aichi, Japan) and Tsutomu Matsuoka (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cylindrical mount in which an inner member and an outer cylindrical member are connected by a main rubber elastic body in a cylindrical shape, the inner member includes a cup member open toward the main rubber elastic body, an end of the main rubber elastic body in an axial direction is inserted and installed to the cup member, a bottom wall of the cup member is superimposed to an end surface of the main rubber elastic body ...