US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on April 7 for "Lock mechanism for telescopic hold open rod" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,069, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Lock mechanism for telescopic hold open rod" was invented by Sanjay Venugopal (Hassan, India), Divya Prakash (Bangalore, India) and Amit Kumar Tripathi (Banbury, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hold open rod has a control sleeve, an outer cylinder, lock balls, a lock sleeve, a piston, a piston head, a release spring, and a lock spring. The control sleeve has first and second cavity sections, an inner radial surface, a CS channel, and a pin. The outer cylinder has an OC inner cavity, OC inner and outer radial surfaces, an OC axial end wall, lo...