US Patent Issued to ZF Automotive Germany on April 22 for "Steering device for a vehicle and method for measuring a rack force acting on a rack with a steering device of this kind" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,821, issued on April 22, was assigned to ZF Automotive Germany GmbH (Alfdorf, Germany).

"Steering device for a vehicle and method for measuring a rack force acting on a rack with a steering device of this kind" was invented by Alexander Wiertz (Solingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering device for a vehicle, having a rack which is mounted so as to be displaceable in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the rack, having a pinion, wherein the rack meshes with the pinion, having a pressing mechanism, wherein the rack is pressed against the pinion by the pressing mechanism, and having a sensor mechanism. The sensor mecha...