ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,112, issued on June 30, was assigned to Flender GmbH (Bocholt, Germany).
"Shaft-hub connection for a transmission" was invented by Tino Tushaus (Bocholt, Germany) and Norbert Haake (Bocholt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaft-hub connection for a planetary transmission includes a shaft, a hub element surrounding an outer circumference of the shaft and drivingly connected to the shaft for rotation about a main rotation axis via splines, a housing element fixed with respect to the main rotation axis, and an oil channel extending in the housing element and the hub element and designed to open out in a region of the splines t...