ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,948, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Weber GmbH & Co. KG (Dillenburg, Germany).
"Opening and closing device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Martin Zeidler (Dautphetal, Germany) and Andreas Beck (Waldbrunn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opening and closing device (10), such as for a charging port on electric vehicles or a fuel filler neck on vehicles with a combustion engine, has a flap unit (68), an actuator (30) for moving the flap unit (68), and a housing (16). The flap unit (68) has at least one guide element (114) which engages in a guide slot (126, 130) formed in the housing (16). The flap unit (68) is couple...