US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on June 23 for "Test stand for the powertrain of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,340, issued on June 23, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Test stand for the powertrain of a motor vehicle" was invented by Christian Hell (Untergriesbach, Germany) and Thomas Dollinger (Passau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a test stand (100) for a powertrain of a motor vehicle (20). The test stand includes at least one loading motor (110) with a motor housing (111) and a motor shaft (112), at least one torque sensor (120), and at least one static module (130), wherein the motor shaft (112) is designed to be drivingly connected to a hub (21) of the motor vehicle (20)...