US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Nov. 11 for "Hollow-shaft assembly for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,507, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Hollow-shaft assembly for a motor vehicle" was invented by Florian Beck (Freising, Germany) and Sebastian Markert (Hilgertshausen-Tandern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow-shaft arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an inner hollow shaft and an outer hollow shaft. An inner shaft shoulder of the outer hollow shaft is arranged behind the inner toothing in an axial direction as viewed from the inflow end of the inner hollow shaft, the inner diameter (D1) of which shaft shoulder is smaller than a root-circle diameter (D2) of the inner toothin...