US Patent Issued to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN on Feb. 17 for "Tiltably mounted planet carrier" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,496, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN N.V. (Lommel, Belgium).

"Tiltably mounted planet carrier" was invented by Warren Smook (Huldenberg, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement including a planetary stage, a shaft, a connecting element that forms a rotationally fixed connection of a planet carrier of the planetary stage to the shaft and is configured to be flexible with respect to tiltings of the planet carrier relative to the shaft, and a center axis of a ring gear of the planetary stage that is tilted relative to an axis of rotation of the...