US Patent Issued to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN on Feb. 10 for "Transmission and generator with intermediate shaft" (Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,388, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN N.V. (Lommel, Belgium).

"Transmission and generator with intermediate shaft" was invented by Warren Smook (Huldenberg, Belgium), Burkhard Lips (Witten, Germany) and Sven Moers (Westerlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement, including a gearbox, a generator, an intermediate shaft configured as a hollow shaft which is mounted at least partially in a housing of the gearbox, wherein a rotor of the generator is non-rotatably connected to the intermediate shaft and is supported by the intermediate shaft, an...