US Patent Issued to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN on Aug. 25 for "Vibration damper having a hydraulic connection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,463, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Vibration damper having a hydraulic connection" was invented by Rainer Beilner (Bergrheinfeld, Germany) and Matthias ReuB (Werneck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration damper with a hydraulic connection includes a check valve and a venting valve. The check valve and the venting valve can be actuated separately, and a hydraulic communication between the vibration damper and a connection opening of the hydraulic connection is switchable via the check valve. The venting valve is hydraulically connected in parallel with the check val...