US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Aug. 25 for "Transmission arrangement and drive train with such a transmission arrangement" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,475, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Transmission arrangement and drive train with such a transmission arrangement" was invented by David Rittler (Neukirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission arrangement for a vehicle drive train includes a planetary wheel set with a planetary carrier with at least one bolt. A first bearing element on the bolt is arranged for rotatably mounting a planetary wheel. The transmission arrangement also has a differential connected to the planetary carrier in a drive-effective manner and configured to transfer a drive power acting on t...