US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Aug. 25 for "Gearwheel with an insert portion made of metal and an outer portion made of plastic, steering mechanism with such a gearwheel and method for producing such a gearwheel" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,478, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Gearwheel with an insert portion made of metal and an outer portion made of plastic, steering mechanism with such a gearwheel and method for producing such a gearwheel" was invented by Markus Dransmann (Dinklage, Germany) and Thorsten Kamphaus (Lohne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearwheel has an insert portion made of metal and an outer portion made of plastic, where the outer portion has a toothed rim and the outer portion is injection-molded onto the insert portion. The outer portion has a plurality of injection-molded sections f...