US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on May 19 for "Planetary gearbox with a thrust washer having anti-rotation means" (German, Null Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,250, issued on May 19, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Planetary gearbox with a thrust washer having anti-rotation means" was invented by Manuel Seubert (Eckental, Germany), Ralph Schimpf (Nuremberg, Germany) and Martin Antalek (Katov, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary gearbox includes a housing having a pair of stops, a planet bearing mounted in the housing, and a planet gear rotatable on the planet bearing. The planet bearing is formed from an axially aligned planet pin and a thrust washer. The thrust washer includes two integrally-formed projections, each faci...