US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Wheel decoupling device for a motor vehicle in a bistable embodiment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,045, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Wheel decoupling device for a motor vehicle in a bistable embodiment" was invented by Elmar Lorenz (Rheinmunster Sollingen, Germany), Stefan Reichert (Malsch, Germany) and Christoph Raber (Ottweiler-Steinbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel decoupling device for a motor vehicle includes a drive element, an output element, a sliding clutch arranged to connect the drive element to the output element for cojoint rotation, and an actuation unit arranged to adjust the sliding clutch. The actuation unit includes a gearwhe...