US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 3 for "Lid lock for refueling or charging port" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,780, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Lid lock for refueling or charging port" was invented by Wenquan Sha (Shanghai) and Yuan Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a lid lock for a refueling or charging port having: a lifting shaft; a worm wheel; and a worm shaft. The worm wheel and the worm shaft are configured such that the worm shaft rotates in a first direction to drive the worm wheel to rotate, thereby driving the lifting shaft to perform a descending movement in an axial direction of the lifting shaft and then perform a rotational movement to ex...