US Patent Issued to VIBRACOUSTIC FORSHEDA on April 29 for "Frequency-tuned vibration damper device, a method for its manufacture, and a vibration damper assembly including the device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,022, issued on April 29, was assigned to VIBRACOUSTIC FORSHEDA AB (Forsheda, Sweden).

"Frequency-tuned vibration damper device, a method for its manufacture, and a vibration damper assembly including the device" was invented by Robin Johansson (Varnamo, Sweden) and Marcus Johansson (Varnamo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency-tuned vibration damper device and assembly which may be used in steering wheels for motor vehicles is provided. Elastomeric stiffening bridges or connectors, integrally formed in elastomeric damper bodies, are used to obtain different damping frequencies in different spatial directions (y, z). Stif...