US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on July 28 for "Internally shunting grounding brush assembly with axial brushes and centering bearings" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,363, issued on July 28, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Internally shunting grounding brush assembly with axial brushes and centering bearings" was invented by Mathieu Hubert (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Gene Arthur Kovacs (Brighton, Mich.), David Christopher Rybski (White Lake, Mich.) and Alberto Carlevaris (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grounding brush assembly is for an electric machine include a rotatable shaft having a bore, an outer housing, bearing(s) rotatably coupling the shaft and housing and an electrically-grounded, fixed shaft extending through the rotatable shaft bore. A conductive base me...