ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,771, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Filling an armature chamber in an actuator" was invented by Dominik Guldenschuh (Freiburg, Germany), Markus Moosmann (Grunkraut, Germany) and Markus Diesch (Bierstetten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator for an assembly in a motor vehicle may have a moving armature in an armature chamber, where the actuator has a fluid path that is configured for fluid transfer between the armature chamber and a fluid reservoir in the assembly when the actuator is installed in an assembly, where the actuator is configured to fill the armature ch...