ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,430, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Advanced Suspension Technology LLC (Northville, Mich.).
"Damper with base line valve" was invented by Stefan Deferme (Heusden-Zolder, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damper including a tube, a piston, and a base line valve. The base line valve arranged in fluid communication with at least one of a first and second working chamber of the tube. The base line valve includes a housing, a plug slidably disposed in the housing along a valve axis between open and closed positions, and a spring. The plug includes a plug nose extending through an opening of the housing. The plug nose includes a...