US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Dec. 9 for "Attachment structure of brake disk for railway vehicle, and brake disk unit using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,732, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Attachment structure of brake disk for railway vehicle, and brake disk unit using same" was invented by Takanori Kato (Tokyo), Atsushi Sakaguchi (Tokyo) and Naruo Miyabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment structure is a structure that attaches an annular brake disk to an attachment object member that is a wheel or a disk body of a railway vehicle. The attachment structure includes a fastening member and an elastic member. The elastic member is disposed between a nut of the fastening member and the brake disk. The elastic member has a member body havin...