US Patent Issued to Stabilus on July 14 for "Drive device for driving a vehicle flap" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,365, issued on July 14, was assigned to Stabilus GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Drive device for driving a vehicle flap" was invented by Thomas Reif (Kobern-Gondorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a drive device (16) for driving a vehicle flap (12), comprising a traction means (18) and a deflection roller (20) with a groove base (42) and roller surfaces (44, 46), wherein the roller surfaces (44, 46) extend further radially outward with respect to the axis of rotation (Y) than the groove base (42) does, wherein the deflection roller (20) is designed to guide the traction means (18) in such a way that a firs...