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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2020
Mahle International Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Peer Niekamp, Leutenbach, DE;
Abstract
An actuator device for adjusting an adjusting element may include a housing, an actuator for driving the adjusting element, and a drive circuit for operating the actuator. The housing may include a support body that may include a drive receiving space and a gear receiving space. The drive circuit may include a plurality of electrically conductive conductor bodies for contacting a plurality of drive contacts of the actuator, for contacting a plurality of components of the drive circuit, and for contacting a supply device. At least one conductor body of the plurality of conductor bodies may be structured as a contact tongue, arranged on the drive circuit, and abut on an electrically conductive actuator housing in a pretensioned manner establishing an electrical contact between the drive circuit and the actuator housing. The actuator housing may be configured as at least one of a zero-ground potential and a reference potential.