ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,112, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS SAS (Vernon, France).
"Electromechanical actuator" was invented by Karl Potier (Aix en Provence, France), Maxime Serrand (Paris), Corentin Boitard (Maisons-Laffitte, France) and Raphael Medina (Ecouen, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical actuator, EMA, having a plurality of modes. The EMA includes a housing, a motor fixed relative to the housing, the motor having an output shaft, the output shaft defining an axis (X) of the EMA and a first sun gear connected for rotation with the output shaft. The system includes an output arranged to be driven by...