ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,748, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Anti-sticking device of inlet actuator" was invented by Seung Woo Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Dae Hyun Kim (Bucheon-si, South Korea) and Dong Geon Lee (Mungyeong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment device includes a housing, an actuator mounted in the housing, the actuator configured to be operated in response to a connection state of a charging plug, a drive shaft configured to be rotated in conjunction with an operation of the actuator, a lever arm rotatably provided outside the housing and ...