US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 17 for "Housing body for a charging or fuel-filling flap module of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,496, issued on June 17, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Housing body for a charging or fuel-filling flap module of a motor vehicle" was invented by Jurgen Herzig (Buchbrunn, Germany), Matthias Kapaun (Gaukonigshofen, Germany) and Matthias Hegwein (Ippesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing body (1) is designed in order to be mounted at least in regions in a mounting opening of an outer skin or outer body component (5) of a motor vehicle, and has an outer flange region (6), which surrounds the housing body (1) at least in regions and defines the outer geometry of the housing body at least i...