US Patent Issued to CHUO HATSUJO on March 25 for "Spring" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,869, issued on March 25, was assigned to CHUO HATSUJO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Spring" was invented by Hiroyuki Ogiso (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuyoshi Nono (Nagoya, Japan), Hideo Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuichi Nakazawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This spring used for a suspension device for a vehicle is provided with: a metal wire material which constitutes a spring section and which has a cover layer provided on the surface thereof; and a seat section which is subjected to a load acting on the spring section, is formed from an elastically deformable material, and is bonded to the cover layer by an adhesive. The diff...