ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,581, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Generator rotor centering device" was invented by John Seipold (Peoria, Ill.) and Lucas Peterson (Washington, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centering device for centering a rotor shaft of a generator to a gearbox shaft of a gearbox in a genset assembly is disclosed. The centering device comprises a clamp assembly configured to be oriented on the rotor shaft and the gearbox shaft wherein the clamp assembly is further configured to be tightened to force the rotor shaft to coaxially align with the gearbox shaft. A method of using the centering device in ...