US Patent Issued to MICROTECNICA on April 21 for "Damping of mechanical drive train" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,231, issued on April 21, was assigned to MICROTECNICA S.R.L. (Turin, Italy).

"Damping of mechanical drive train" was invented by Dario Savino (Palazzolo Vercellese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damping mechanism for providing vibration damping between coaxially mounted first, outer, shaft and second, inner, shaft of a drive train. The damping mechanism includes a friction disk, a Belleville spring and an adjustment shim arranged to be mounted under a pre-load force within the first shaft exerting a force against the second shaft, the damping mechanism arranged to be secured in the first shaft by a locking nut."

The patent...