US Patent Issued to D-BOX TECHNOLOGIES on May 20 for "Joint assembly for linear actuator of motion simulator" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,697, issued on May 20, was assigned to D-BOX TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Joint assembly for linear actuator of motion simulator" was invented by Stephan Gagnon (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint assembly has a housing having an inner wall surrounding an interior cavity of the housing. A slider is held captive in the interior cavity of the housing so as to define an annular volume extending radially between the slider and the inner wall of housing, the slider constrained to planar movement and a rotational degree of freedom in the housing. An annular resilient member is in the annular volume, the annular...