F16H 25/2015
Means specially adapted for stopping actuators in the end position
Official title: {Means specially adapted for stopping actuators in the end position; Position sensing means}
F16H25/2015 (Means specially adapted for stopping actuators in the end position) appears on 421 US grants and 457 published applications in this corpus.
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