US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Gearbox arrangement comprising a stepped planetary reduction, a differential, and an electrically operable axle drive train" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,386, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Gearbox arrangement comprising a stepped planetary reduction, a differential, and an electrically operable axle drive train" was invented by Thorsten Biermann (Wachenroth, Germany), Christian Dassler (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Harald Martini (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Inaki Fernandez (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission arrangement includes a planetary transmission and a differential. The planetary transmission includes a planetary sun gear, a ring gear, a gear carrier, planetary gear shafts, and ste...