US Patent Issued to STABILUS on Feb. 24 for "Gas pressure spring with overpressure protection, method for manufacturing the gas pressure spring" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,216, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to STABILUS GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Gas pressure spring with overpressure protection, method for manufacturing the gas pressure spring" was invented by Ulrich Probst (Hillscheid, Germany), Alexander Reiser (Munstermaifeld, Germany), Felix Beib (Koblenz, Germany) and Nico Unkelbach (Ruscheid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas pressure spring is provided including a pressure tube and a fluid with a fluid pressure enclosed by the pressure tube in a fluid-tight manner in an operating state of the gas pressure spring. A wall of the pressure tube has a local taper, the taper forming a prede...