US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on May 20 for "Drive arrangement of a conditioning apparatus of a forage harvester having an electrical drive train" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,792, issued on May 20, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Drive arrangement of a conditioning apparatus of a forage harvester having an electrical drive train" was invented by Stefan Bohrer (St.Wendel, Germany), Gerd Schoerry (Blieskastel, Germany) and Georg Kormann (Zweibruecken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive arrangement of a conditioning apparatus of a forage harvester having two conditioning rollers, with at least one of the conditioning rollers able to be driven at variable speed via an electrical drive train, includes an electric motor/generator for driving the conditioning roller. The electric mot...