US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Dec. 23 for "Actuating mechanism for actuating vehicle doors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,889, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Actuating mechanism for actuating vehicle doors" was invented by Zsolt Wilke (Bad Mergentheim, Germany) and Andreas Rudolf (Eibelstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an actuating mechanism for actuating, in particular opening, vehicle doors, wherein the actuating mechanism comprises the following: an actuating element, which is transfer-able from a home position into an actuating position in order to generate an electrical actuation signal and into a second actuating position for manual actuation of the vehic...