US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Sept. 1 for "Transport unit of a long stator linear motor" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,913, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Transport unit of a long stator linear motor" was invented by David Daxecker (Eggelsberg, Austria), Raphael Folsche (Eggelsberg, Austria) and Alexander Dicker (Eggelsberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide roller or roller unit on a transport unit of a transport device in the form of a long stator linear motor suitable for hygiene applications, includes a first axial end face of a roller of the transport unit which is closed by an end wall and the opposite second end face is open, such that a bearing recess is formed in the interior of the roll...