US Patent Issued to LISI AEROSPACE on June 10 for "Hook latch for aircraft panel" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,021, issued on June 10, was assigned to LISI AEROSPACE (Paris).

"Hook latch for aircraft panel" was invented by Laurent Renard (Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch (12) is for connecting a panel to a structure, comprising: a bracket (30); a sliding body (32), translationally movable within the bracket; and a hooking arm (34) comprising a hook (74) and connected to the sliding body. The hooking arm is movable relative to the sliding body between an inclined and a parallel conformation. The sliding body can be moved between an unlocking position and a locking position. In the unlocking position, the hooki...