US Patent Issued to HNP MIKROSYSTEME on Feb. 18 for "Transport device having an actuator and separating layer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,121, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to HNP MIKROSYSTEME GMBH (Schwerin, Germany).

"Transport device having an actuator and separating layer" was invented by Tim Polley (Schwerin, Germany), Thomas Weisener (Schwerin, Germany), Gerald Voegele (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Sven Reimann (Ludwigslust, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device (100) comprises a housing (110), an actuator (130) and a drive (150). The housing has a fluid inlet (111, 113) and a fluid outlet (113, 111). The actuator (130) comprises a magnetic shape-memory alloy, and the actuator (130) is arranged at least in sections in the housing (110). The ac...