US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Aug. 4 for "Linear actuator with deaeration of the extension arm by way of a check valve" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,824, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Linear actuator with deaeration of the extension arm by way of a check valve" was invented by Reiner Knoell (Burgsinn, Germany), Marco Knoell (Burgsinn, Germany) and Michael Goldbach (Lohr A. Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator includes a housing, an extension arm, and a threaded spindle. The threaded spindle is rotatably supported on the housing with respect to the center axis of the threaded spindle. The extension arm projects slidably out of the housing in the direction of the center axis. The housing and the extension arm together ...