US Patent Issued to AUDI on Nov. 4 for "Method and setting arrangement for dispensing tolerance compensation elements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,342, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and setting arrangement for dispensing tolerance compensation elements" was invented by Steffen Sinzel (Weinsberg, Germany), Norbert Hornbostel (Talheim, Germany) and Alexander Lofflath (Neuenstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A setting arrangement for automatically attaching tolerance compensation elements to a respective component, in particular a battery housing part. The setting arrangement has a storage unit which is designed to receive the tolerance compensation elements and to position them correctly in a row in such a way that the toleranc...