US Patent Issued to GKN Driveline Deutschland on Sept. 22 for "Constant velocity plunging joint and method of producing a constant velocity plunging joint" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,478, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH (Offenbach, Germany).

"Constant velocity plunging joint and method of producing a constant velocity plunging joint" was invented by Peter Muller (Offenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A constant velocity plunging joint having an outer joint part, an inner joint part, balls which are arranged in pairs of tracks each comprising an outer ball track and an inner ball track, and a ball cage with circumferentially distributed cage windows, in each of which one of the balls is accommodated. An outer ring line through all ball centers on the outer ball track...