US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on July 14 for "Near zero degrees cross-axis angle gear cutter and method of gear cutting using such a tool" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,873, issued on July 14, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Near zero degrees cross-axis angle gear cutter and method of gear cutting using such a tool" was invented by Benjamin S. Sheen (Schoolcraft, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear cutter tool for cutting internal gear teeth into a workpiece to form a gear is provided. The gear cutter tool is configured to rotate about a longitudinal gear cutter rotational axis. The workpiece is configured to rotate about a workpiece rotational axis. The gear cutter tool includes a gear cutter having a plurality of cutting teeth. Each cutting tooth of the plurality of...