US Patent Issued to Alkon on July 1 for "Multistage landing gear actuator with slip-clutch assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,203, issued on July 1, was assigned to Alkon Corp. (Fremont, Ohio).

"Multistage landing gear actuator with slip-clutch assembly" was invented by Shane R. LaHousse (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Christopher Domanski (Brighton, Mich.) and Robert L. Allen (Linden, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear system including a landing gear actuator assembly arranged to selectably provide an increased torque output to a cross-shaft adaptor rotationally coupled to a cross-shaft of a trailer landing gear assembly. A rotational engagement mechanism is arranged to, in response to a remote signal, shift a rotational engagement mechanism to selecta...