US Patent Issued to TAIWAN FU HSING INDUSTRIAL on Sept. 15 for "Electric lock and clutch mechanism thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,915, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TAIWAN FU HSING INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Electric lock and clutch mechanism thereof" was invented by Chao-Ming Huang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Chi-Ming Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric lock has a lock cylinder operable with a key. The lock cylinder has a latch drive lever extending along an axis. A clutch mechanism of the electric lock includes a fixed base fixedly connected to the lock cylinder, a rotatable knob rotatable on the fixed base, a clutch part movable along the axis and rotatable about the axis on the fixed base, a li...