ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,164, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SUSPA GMBH (Altdorf, Germany).
"Friction damper" was invented by Thorsten Dammann (Leinburg, Germany), Andreas Pelczer (Altdorf, Germany) and Michael Weder (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A friction damper includes a housing having a longitudinal axis, a tappet that is displaceable along the longitudinal axis, a friction unit for generating a direction-dependent friction force on the tappet, wherein the friction unit includes at least one friction lining that rests frictionally on the tappet and a friction lining carrier on which the at least one friction lining is held, wher...