ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,419, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Flender Industriegetriebe GmbH (Penig, Germany).
"Transmission housing with drilled oil pan" was invented by Christoph Messink (Penig, Germany) and Guido Josten (Penig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission housing includes a plurality of side walls, at least one of the side walls including one or more housing openings for accommodating a bearing. A rib structure is formed on an inner side of one of the side walls and designed to taper in a funnel shape vertically above one of the housing openings in a direction of the one of the housing openings. A collecting pan is formed by a...