US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 3 for "Actuating mechanism for actuating covers for vehicles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,496, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Actuating mechanism for actuating covers for vehicles" 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: a housing having a pivot axis; an actuating element, which is transferable from a home position into an actuating position in order to generate an electrical actuation signal and into an emergency release positi...