ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,425, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Spring member" was invented by Yoshio Yamada (Yokohama, Japan), Hironobu Imaizumi (Yokohama, Japan), Norihiro Tajima (Yokohama, Japan) and Shuji Takahashi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The spring member (1, 2, 3) includes a conductive plate (11) and a support plate (12), the conductive plate is formed of a material in which at least one of electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity thereof is higher than that of a material forming the support plate, the support plate is formed of the material having a higher Young's modulus than th...