US Patent Issued to Edscha Engineering on March 25 for "Actuating drive comprising a torque-limiting device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,026, issued on March 25, was assigned to Edscha Engineering GmbH (Remscheid, Germany).

"Actuating drive comprising a torque-limiting device" was invented by Jorg Dornen (Remscheid, Germany), Christian Bartschies (Remscheid, Germany), Christoph Schmidt (Remscheid, Germany) and Jochen Bals (Remscheid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a control drive, in particular a spindle drive for adjusting a swivelable vehicle flap, comprising a housing (2), a spindle rod (3) that is rotatably mounted in the housing (2), a first coupling element (5) for driving a rotational movement of the spindle rod (3), and a torq...