US Patent Issued to Toyo Tire on Sept. 1 for "Anti-vibration device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,634, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Toyo Tire Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Anti-vibration device" was invented by Yasuhiro Kuroda (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-vibration device is provided to enable improvement in a static spring constant of a bush in an axially perpendicular direction while suppressing an increase in a volume of the bush. A lower seat is formed to a position downward relative to a through hole on an axial end surface of a bush. The lower seat axially outwardly inclines downward to the outer circumferential surface of the bush. This lower seat enables suppression of an increase in a volume of the...