ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,771, issued on June 16, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Arrangement for grounding a shaft" was invented by Christoph Margraf (Markdorf, Germany), Michael Griesbach (Tettnang, Germany) and Daniel Ortner (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement (13) for grounding a shaft, in particular an input shaft (2) of a transmission (3), includes a grounding hub (16) via which the shaft to be grounded is electrically conductively connected to a ground, preferably a housing (9). The ground forms a guide bore (25) in which the grounding hub (16) is axially movably guided. The shaft t...