US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on April 21 for "Active air flap" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,009, issued on April 21, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Active air flap" was invented by Sung-Wook Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Ok Ryul Min (Daejeon, South Korea), Won Sub So (Daejeon, South Korea), Neung Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yong Min Jo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an active air flap comprising: a door including a barrier plate formed in a plate form, a pair of extension portions respectively extending in the thickness direction from both sides of the barrier plate in the longitudinal direction, and a pair of rotational coupling portions res...