ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,414, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN N.V. (Lommel, Belgium).
"Spring-mounted gearbox housing" was invented by Alf Trede (Immenstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for fixing a housing of a wind turbine gearbox in a nacelle, including a housing-fixing means, a nacelle-fixing means, and at least two spring devices. The spring devices support the housing-fixing means against the nacelle-fixing means in opposite directions along a support axis. The spring devices are arranged on different sides of a plane extending parallel to an axis ...