ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,943, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).
"Brake mechanism for a radial piston unit" was invented by Chris Shrive (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Yanjiang Wan (Zhenjiang, China) and Xiaoyuan Chen (Zhenjiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrostatic radial piston unit of the cam-lobe type of construction including a non-rotary, stationary casing. The stationary casing includes a through hole defining a rotational axis of the hydrostatic radial piston unit. A rotary casing is mounted rotary to the non-rotary, stationary casing in an axial overlapping area. A park brake mechanism includes at least tw...