US Patent Issued to Hella on Sept. 30 for "Drive device for an opening mechanism for opening a movable opening element of a vehicle, and opening system for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,112, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Drive device for an opening mechanism for opening a movable opening element of a vehicle, and opening system for a vehicle" was invented by Johannes Langkau (Olsberg, Germany), Jost Kleine-Weischede (Kamen, Germany), Matthias Humpe (Oelde, Germany) and Bodo Buecker (Arnsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device for an opening mechanism for opening a movable opening element of a vehicle. The drive device comprising: a drive unit for generating the drive torque; a housing having a mounting side which can be oriented towards a vehicl...