US Patent Issued to SCHUNK TRANSIT SYSTEMS on Dec. 30 for "Positioning unit for a charging station, and method for making contact" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,928, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SCHUNK TRANSIT SYSTEMS GMBH (Wettenberg, Germany).

"Positioning unit for a charging station, and method for making contact" was invented by Lothar Schneider (Lahnau, Germany), Timo Staubach (Herbstein, Germany) and Holger Leib (Heuchelheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning unit and a method for forming an electrically conductive connection between a stationary charging station and a vehicle using a positioning unit, the positioning unit having a positioning device and a drive unit for driving the positioning device. A charging contact is positionable between a contacting pos...