US Patent Issued to ZF ACTIVE SAFETY AND ELECTRONICS US on Dec. 23 for "Adjustment apparatus for a steering gear mechanism in a motor vehicle and motor vehicle steering gear mechanism" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,068, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ZF ACTIVE SAFETY AND ELECTRONICS US LLC (Livonia, Mich.).

"Adjustment apparatus for a steering gear mechanism in a motor vehicle and motor vehicle steering gear mechanism" was invented by James Wang (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an adjustment apparatus 20 for a steering gear mechanism 1, in particular for motor vehicles, wherein in a gear train having at least three gears an intermediate gear 27 is arranged in such a manner that it can move along a straight adjustment line 105 in order to adjust backlash in the gear train. The intermediate gear...