US Patent Issued to DANA (WUXI) TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 4 for "Power take-off (PTO) assembly in a transmission and PTO assembly operating method" (Chinese, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,659, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DANA (WUXI) TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Power take-off (PTO) assembly in a transmission and PTO assembly operating method" was invented by Weiguo Zhao (Wuxi, China), Filip D. Schacht (Meulebeke, Belgium) and Quan Liu (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power take-off (PTO) systems and methods. A PTO assembly, in one example, includes a first one-way clutch configured to engage with a shaft of a prime mover or an output shaft when the prime mover rotates in a first direction and a second one-way clutch configured to engage with the shaft of the prime mover or the output shaft wh...