US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on Sept. 1 for "Linear actuator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,539, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Kariya, Japan).

"Linear actuator" was invented by Masaki Okada (Takahama, Japan), Takayuki Ogasawara (Takahama, Japan) and Hiroaki Hyodo (Takahama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear actuator may include a rail including a gear rack extending along a longitudinal direction of the rail and a pinion unit configured to slidably engage the gear rack. The gear rack may include at least one no-teeth section among a row of teeth and the at least one no-teeth section may extend over a length. The pinion unit may include two pinion gears both configured to engage the gear...