ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,406, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Beijing Institute of Precision Mechatronics and Controls (Beijing).

"Cam type airplane cabin door load simulation device and simulation method" was invented by Hao Wu (Beijing), Xiaolu Wang (Beijing), Zhenjin Nie (Beijing), Shuai Liu (Beijing), Zhe Pan (Beijing), Danyang Wang (Beijing), Guangran Niu (Beijing) and Lin Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a cam type airplane cabin door load simulation device and simulation method. The device comprises n cam groups, an input shaft, 3n couplers, and a friction disc load device; the n cam groups and the fricti...