US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on March 17 for "Revolving drum arrangement for a tire test bench, tire test bench and method for testing vehicle tires" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,252, issued on March 17, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Revolving drum arrangement for a tire test bench, tire test bench and method for testing vehicle tires" was invented by Thomas Dollinger (Passau, Germany), Andreas Griebl (Haarbach, Germany) and Florian Stemplinger (Wegscheid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A revolving drum arrangement (2) for a tire testing rig (1) has a drum body (5) and a friction wheel drive (6), wherein on its outer circumference (9) the drum body (5) has a running surface (9) for making contact with a vehicle tire (4) and is arranged to rotate about its running ...