ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,870, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vibration damping device for vehicle" was invented by Xun Wang (Saitama, Japan), Toshio Inoue (Saitama, Japan) and Yuho Ito (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration damping device for a vehicle includes a subframe to which a vibration of a wheel is transmitted, a plurality of mounts arranged between the subframe and a vehicle body and configured such that stiffness of each mount in a prescribed direction changes according to an excitation current supplied thereto, and a controller configured to control the excitation current supplied to each mo...