ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,055, issued on May 26, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) and VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Shaft-hub connection with a spline toothing" was invented by Michael Frisch (Schoenberg, Germany), Johannes Albl (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Wolfgang Heise (Wolfsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaft-hub connection includes a shaft and a hub which engage with one another for conjoint rotation about an axis of rotation via a first toothing and a second toothing. The first toothing has a first toothing region and a second toothing region, wherein the first toothing region and the second toothing region are, as viewe...