US Patent Issued to Hydro-Gear on Sept. 8 for "Electric drive assembly with planetary gear reduction" (Illinois, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,069, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hydro-Gear LP (Sullivan, Ill.).

"Electric drive assembly with planetary gear reduction" was invented by Nathan W. Bonny (Shelbyville, Ill.), Ryan S. Buescher (Neoga, Ill.) and Henry J. Hansen (Zionsville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive includes an electric motor disposed in a housing and driving a motor shaft, a Hall effect sensor adjacent to the motor, a power and control assembly, and a pinion gear driven by the motor shaft. A planetary gear reduction assembly is driven by the pinion gear, and an output axle has an axis of rotation that is offset from and parallel to the motor sh...