US Patent Issued to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN on July 14 for "Space-saving housing mounting" (Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,532, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN N.V. (Lommel, Belgium).

"Space-saving housing mounting" was invented by Warren Smook (Huldenberg, Belgium), Sven Moers (Westerlo, Belgium) and Alf Trede (Immenstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing for a wind turbine gearbox, including at least two bolt eyes for receiving a respective bolt for fixing a housing in a nacelle-fixing means. In each case two bolt eyes are mirror-symmetrical to each other with respect to a first longitudinal plane. The bolt eyes are arranged entirely on a same side of a seco...