US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on July 7 for "Electromechanical actuator assembly with mechanical override feature" (Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,492, issued on July 7, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Electromechanical actuator assembly with mechanical override feature" was invented by Pradeep Acharya (Bangalore, India), Stephen Harlow Davies (Shrewsbury, Great Britain) and Sreekanth Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical actuator assembly (EMA) for use with a reclinable passenger seat. The EMA includes a housing, an electric motor, and an epicyclic gearbox including first and second ring gears. In the event of power loss, the second ring gear can be decoupled from the first ring gear to permit relative rotation, for...