US Patent Issued to SOMIC MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS on June 24 for "Linear damper and steering device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,914, issued on June 24, was assigned to SOMIC MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS INC. (Tokyo).

"Linear damper and steering device" was invented by Kazumasa Nakaya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akifumi Endo (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a linear damper capable of reducing great collision sound or impact even when a great load rapidly acts and a steering device including the linear damper. A steering device 100 includes a linear damper 120 between a rack bar 103 and a rack end 106. In the linear damper 120, a relative displacement body 140 is provided to be reciprocatably displaceable in an inner chamber forming body 121 formed...