US Patent Issued to BorgWarner on Sept. 8 for "Carrier-less spring loaded planetary gearset used with eVCT" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,635, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Carrier-less spring loaded planetary gearset used with eVCT" was invented by Douglas W. Perry (Interlaken, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically-actuated variable camshaft timing (VCT) assembly including a gearbox assembly, having a sun gear, and a plurality of planet gears in meshing engagement with the sun gear, each of the plurality of planet gears including a ball socket at a radial gear face; and a rolling ball received within the ball socket, wherein the planet gears rotate about the rolling ball, and are configured to engage a ramped ...