ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,875, issued on March 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Void bushing for a vehicle suspension" was invented by Hae Seong Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jae Hyun Cho (Incheon, South Korea), Sang Hoon Yoo (Asan-si, South Korea) and Dae Won Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A void bushing for a vehicle suspension is configured to have protrusion parts formed to protrude outwards on a bulge part of an inner pipe. The protrusion parts are located to be disposed in oblique line directions between void portions of an elastic body that is filled betwee...