ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,819, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).
"Drive and method for operating a drive" was invented by Lech Banasik (Brighton East, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive includes an electric motor and a first gearbox that can be driven by the electric motor. An output shaft of the first gearbox is connected rotation-fast to a first shaft by a coupling, e.g., a rigid shaft coupling, and the first shaft is mounted by an axial bearing, e.g., a single axial bearing, that can be subjected to a force by at least one controllable first linear actuator."
The patent was filed on May 18,...