ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,233, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS SAS (Saint-Marcel, France).
"Runaway emergency actuator brake" was invented by Karl Potier (Paris) and Raphael Medina (Pierrefitte sur Seine, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an electrically-actuated clutch arranged to selectively connect a shaft to a motor shaft. Ratchets brake the shaft against rotation in either direction when the output is not within either of the predetermined ranges. Thus, when the motor shaft is connected, via the clutch, to the shaft, the ratchets may act as a brake on the motor shaft."
The patent was filed on March 1...