US Patent Issued to Rohr on Sept. 30 for "Clutch assembly for an aircraft door" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,125, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rohr Inc. (Chula Vista, Calif.).

"Clutch assembly for an aircraft door" was invented by Damien Buchet (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door assembly for an aircraft includes a door, an interior door handle and an exterior door handle, and a clutch assembly. The interior door handle and the exterior door handle are rotatable about a door handle rotational axis. The clutch assembly includes a shaft, an exterior coupling body, an exterior handle body, and a clutch lever. The shaft includes an interface portion. The interface portion includes a handle tooth. The exterior couplin...