ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,463, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle suspension system" was invented by Ryosuke Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan), Kazuya Konada (Saitama, Japan) and Takashi Yanagi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle suspension system includes: a road surface sensor provided in a vehicle body portion ahead of a front wheel to detect an unevenness of a road surface; an electromagnetic damper that applies a damping force and a propulsive force along a stroke direction to a vehicle body and the front wheel with the aid of a motor element; and an ECU. The road surface sensor includes: a first road s...