US Patent Issued to SHO-BOND, BRIDGE BEARING MANUFACTURE on Oct. 21 for "Seismic reinforcement device for bridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,741, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SHO-BOND Corp. (Tokyo) and BRIDGE BEARING MANUFACTURE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Seismic reinforcement device for bridge" was invented by Hiroshi Takemura (Tokyo), Yuki Andoh (Tokyo), Yoshisato Hiratsuka (Tokyo), Hironori Ogura (Tokyo) and Yuichi Goda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seismic reinforcement device for a bridge includes a first member having a projecting portion and a second member having a depressed portion. The device has a horizontal force sharing function in which the projecting and the depressed portions are freely fitted to and engaged with one another to constitute a shear k...