US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Sept. 1 for "Transmission for an integral differential, integral differential and drive train" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,642, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Transmission for an integral differential, integral differential and drive train" was invented by Matthias Reisch (Ravensburg, Germany), Florian Petrich (Kressbronn, Germany) and Danilo Lind (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission for an integral differential, the transmission having a fixed housing part, and a first planetary gear set defining an axis of rotation. The first planetary gear set has a planet carrier fixed to the fixed housing part to seal a lubricant chamber spatially delimited by the planet carrie...