US Patent Issued to SCHUNK CARBON TECHNOLOGY, AUDI on Sept. 15 for "Discharge device for discharging electrical currents and machine comprising such a discharge device" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,812, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SCHUNK CARBON TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Bad Goisern, Austria) and AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Discharge device for discharging electrical currents and machine comprising such a discharge device" was invented by Ludwig Kain (Bad Goisern, Austria) and Steffen Triebe (Manching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharge device for discharging electrical currents from a rotor having a shaft, the discharge device including a movable contact element at least partially accommodated in a guide having a guide wall and an outer wall, the contact element being configured to form an electrically condu...