ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,482, issued on April 14.
"Actuator, safety device, and flying body" was invented by Hideki Otsubo (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided an actuator that can be reduced in weight as compared with a related art while alleviating an impact at an activation, a safety apparatus that ejects an ejected object, and an aerial vehicle including the safety apparatus. A safety apparatus 100 includes an actuator 1, a push-up member 15 that is pushed up in one direction by the actuator 1, an ejected object 16 that is pushed up while being supported by the push-up member 15, a bottomed cylindrical co...