US Patent Issued to Gene Hawkins on Oct. 28 for "Active air spring mass damper and suspension control system including same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,162, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Gene Hawkins (Ada, Mich.).

"Active air spring mass damper and suspension control system including same" was invented by Gene Hawkins (Ada, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid spring mass damper for a motor vehicle may include a housing to be mounted to the vehicle and defining a cavity therein with opposed ends sealing the cavity, a damper mass received within and movable along the cavity, a first compressible fluid disposed within the cavity between the mass and one of the opposed ends of the housing to form a first fluid spring, and a second compressible fluid disposed within the cav...