ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,747, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).
"Electric cylinder device" was invented by Yuichi Sakakibara (Kariya, Japan), Naru Sugimoto (Kariya, Japan) and Atsushi Takahashi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electric cylinder device including a third gear that rotates by receiving rotation of an electric motor and a linear motion conversion mechanism that converts the rotation of the third gear into linear motion of a piston inside a cylinder, a nut, which is a linear motion portion of the linear motion conversion mechanism, and the piston are connected in a state in which relative displac...