ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,046, issued on April 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO PRECISION PRODUCTS Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Landing gear for aircraft" was invented by Kazunari Tada (Hyogo, Japan) and Shinnosuke Masamura (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear (1) includes a shock strut (2) having a cylinder (3) and a piston (4), and a wheel (5) supported on the piston. The shock strut has a steering mechanism (21) that turns the wheel about the strut axis (Z) together with the piston. A power source for the steering mechanism is an electric motor (6) having a rotor (61) and a stator (62), and the rotor and the stator are coaxial with the strut...