US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Sept. 9 for "Lock detection mechanism for electronic locking differential" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,857, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Lock detection mechanism for electronic locking differential" was invented by Ram Palaskar (Pune, India), Piyush Dube (Nagpur, India) and Andrew Edler (Homer, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an electronic locking differential gear mechanism having a lock detection mechanism for sensing and indication of a locked and unlocked state of the locking mechanism. The electronic locking differential gear mechanism includes an electronic stator which, when activated, rotates a ramped collar about an axis of the mechanism. Th...