US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on July 15 for "Torsional vibration damper having an axis of rotation for a drive train" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,694, issued on July 15, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Torsional vibration damper having an axis of rotation for a drive train" was invented by Jennifer Lau (Achern, Germany), Romain Kaufmann (Gundershoffen, France), Uwe Weller (Karlsruhe, Germany), Jean-Francois Heller (Strassburg, France) and Alain Rusch (Gambsheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torsional vibration damper for a drive train includes an axis of rotation, a multi-flange damper for damping torsional vibrations, a torque limiter unit for limiting a maximum transmissible torque, an outer hub connecting the multi-...