ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,804, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).
"Drive system" was invented by Torsten Epskamp (Bretten, Germany), Frank Hartmann (St. Leon Rot, Germany) and Alexander Stahl (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor includes an angle sensor, and the angle sensor includes a main body, a hood part, a holding part, a first circuit board, an intermediate flange, a second circuit board, a disk part, e.g., with a dimensional scale, and a hollow shaft. The rotor shaft of the angle sensor is connected to a rotor of the electric motor for conjoint rotation, and the disk par...