ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,184, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BAR-PNEUMATISCHE STEUERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH (Dattenberg, Germany).
"Pivot actuator" was invented by Markus Kroll (Dattenberg, Germany) and Axel Kuhn (Niederbreitbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pivot actuator comprising: a housing; a piston supported in the housing; a drive shalt protruding from the housing wherein the piston engages the drive shaft to rotate the drive shaft about a drive axis by a pivot angle between two end positions; and a switching cam coupled to the drive shaft and configured to contact a stop element in the two end positions, wherein the switching cam includes t...