ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,581, issued on April 21, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Electric actuator" was invented by Naoki Ito (Kariya, Japan), Yoshitomo Nakahara (Kariya, Japan), Masahiro Tajiri (Kariya, Japan) and Takashi Santo (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric actuator includes an electric motor including a driving shaft; an input shaft coupled to the driving shaft; an input gear configured to rotate integrally with the input shaft; an output gear configured to rotate based on a power transmitted from the input gear; a bearing configured to rotatably support the input shaft; and a housing that houses the electric mot...