US Patent Issued to Adient US on Oct. 6 for "Gear unit, geared motor and longitudinal adjuster" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,669, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Gear unit, geared motor and longitudinal adjuster" was invented by Ingo Quast (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Erik Sprenger (Wermelskirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear unit may have a housing and a gearwheel arranged in the housing. To mount the gearwheel in the housing, a bearing arrangement is provided and designed such that the gearwheel is supported spring-elastically axially, and is mounted movably, in relation to the housing. The gear unit may also be used in a geared motor and with a longitudinal adjuster for a vehicle seat having the geared m...