US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on July 28 for "Wet-running bevel gear differential for an electrically operable axle drive train" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,931, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Wet-running bevel gear differential for an electrically operable axle drive train" was invented by Jochen Loeffelmann (Eggolsheim, Germany), Peter Welker (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Andreas Rosenwald (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bevel gear differential includes an axis of rotation, a first differential cage having an oil opening, a second differential cage connected to the first differential cage at a first connecting region, a differential gear, first and second output gears, and a cap. The first and seco...