ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,220, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fluid pressure shock absorber" was invented by Kazuki Hasegawa (Gifu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid pressure shock absorber includes a damping valve that is capable of changing damping characteristic in response to a pilot pressure, and a pilot valve configured to supply the working fluid in the bottom-side chamber or the rod-side chamber to a pilot chamber of the damping valve as a pilot pressure. The pilot valve has a first pilot chamber configured such that the working fluid is guided from the bottom-side chamber, and a second pilot chamber configured such ...