US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia, Hanon Systems on March 17 for "Flap automatically-locking active air flap apparatus for vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,925, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Hanon Systems (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Flap automatically-locking active air flap apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Woo-Jae Kwon (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Ji-Eun Yang (Wonju-Si, South Korea), Sung-Wook Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ok-Ryul Min (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flap automatically-locking active air flap apparatus for a vehicle, includes a four-link mechanism that connects a driveshaft rotated by an actuator and a rotation shaft which separated from the driveshaft and about whi...