US Patent Issued to DORMAKABA DEUTSCHLAND on July 22 for "Drive unit for a sliding assembly, in particular a sliding door" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,102, issued on July 22, was assigned to DORMAKABA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Ennepetal, Germany).

"Drive unit for a sliding assembly, in particular a sliding door" was invented by Andreas Finke (Ennepetal, Germany) and Axel Richstein (Ennepetal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit for a sliding arrangement, in particular a sliding door, includes a carriage, which is formed for linearly mobile mounting in relation to a sub-structure of the sliding arrangement, a deflection roller rotatable around a roller axis at the carriage for deflecting a drive belt of the sliding arrangement, and a tensioning device, comprising having a sh...