US Patent Issued to Diehl Aviation Laupheim on Sept. 30 for "Aircraft and aircraft stowage compartment having a force assistance system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,156, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH (Laupheim, Germany).

"Aircraft and aircraft stowage compartment having a force assistance system" was invented by Daniel Siessegger (Achstetten, Germany) and Dirk Pfinder (Balzheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft stowage compartment includes a main body, a swiveling compartment swiveling relative to the main body, and a spring unit therebetween. In an active state, a spring device of the spring unit generates closing forces on the swiveling compartment prevented in a passive state. A connection unit with a connection element in biased zero posi...