ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,092, issued on May 6, was assigned to NICHIAS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Shim for disk brakes, and disk brake" was invented by Junichi Kondoh (Tokyo), Toshiharu Anegawa (Tokyo), Yuki Soeda (Tokyo) and Tadashi Arai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel disc brake shim and a disc brake that can effectively suppress vibration and squeal are provided. The disc brake shim that is formed of a multilayer structure with three layers or more including at least a base material layer formed of a metal sheet, and a foamed rubber layer that is laminated on a main surface on one side of the base material layer, wherein the foamed rubber layer is an i...