US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Sept. 1 for "Internally shunting grounding brush assembly with axially-extending conductive fibers" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,088, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Internally shunting grounding brush assembly with axially-extending conductive fibers" 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 for an electric machine which includes a rotatable, an outer housing, one or more bearings coupling the shaft with the housing, and a fixed shaft extending through the rotatable shaft and electrically grounded. The grounding brush assembly inclu...