US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Oct. 7 for "Spring plate arrangement with anti-rotation means and vibration damper with the spring plate arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,766, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Spring plate arrangement with anti-rotation means and vibration damper with the spring plate arrangement" was invented by Hartmut Roelleke (Kircheib, Germany), Mathias Balensiefer (Eitorf, Germany) and Alexander Au (Windeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring plate arrangement for vibration damper with damper tube, with spring plate for supporting a suspension spring, the spring plate having a contact portion circumferentially contacting a circumference of the damper tube, a receiving portion adjoining the contact portion via a shoul...