ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,383, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MAGNA Auteca GmbH (Weiz, Austria).
"Adjustment drive" was invented by Bernhard Hubert Schadler (Gersdorf an der Feistritz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustment drive that includes an electric motor, a transmission having a self-locking transmission stage, an output, and a safety clutch having a free travel. The safety clutch is operable to separate, in an event of an excessive external torque introduced via the output, the self-locking transmission stage from the external torque. The adjustment drive also includes at least one compressible damping element arranged in the free tr...