US Patent Issued to SEW-EURODRIVE on Dec. 30 for "Adapter including an adapter shaft, a clutch part, and a bearing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,120, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Adapter including an adapter shaft, a clutch part, and a bearing" was invented by Jurgen Kasper (Lingenfeld, Germany), Wolfgang Brand (Linkenheim-Hochstetten, Germany) and Philipp Bossert (Karlsbad, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter, e.g., for a geared motor, includes an adapter shaft, a clutch part, and a bearing, e.g., a rolling bearing. The adapter part has dogs, e.g., dogs protruding in the axial direction, and the inner ring of the bearing is fitted onto a bearing seat, e.g., a finely machined bearing seat, provided on the a...