US Patent Issued to MAGNA Powertrain on March 3 for "Mounting tool for positioning a shaft sealing ring on a shaft and method for producing a shaft seal" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,923, issued on March 3, was assigned to MAGNA Powertrain GmbH & Co KG (Lannach, Austria).

"Mounting tool for positioning a shaft sealing ring on a shaft and method for producing a shaft seal" was invented by Harald Maierhofer (Vorau, Austria) and Bernhard Kummer (Grosssteinbach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting tool for positioning a shaft sealing ring on a shaft against a curvature of a sealing lip of a shaft sealing ring, wherein the shaft sealing ring has an annular main body, a sealing lip and can be applied to the shaft and a spring washer for pre-tensioning the sealing lip in the direction of the shaft, wherein...