US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on Jan. 13 for "Vibration isolator pre-load mechanism" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,271, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Vibration isolator pre-load mechanism" was invented by Paul A Gilmore (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Umesh Gandhi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Brian J Pinkelman (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a vibration isolator which incorporates at least two disk spring washers. Each disk spring washer has at least one ring-shaped outer spacer coupled to the outer edges of one or two of the disk spring washers, and at least one ring-shaped inner spacer coupled to the i...