US Patent Issued to Flender on Dec. 30 for "Coupling for wind turbine gearbox, drive train, wind turbine and industrial application" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,123, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Flender GmbH (Bocholt, Germany).

"Coupling for wind turbine gearbox, drive train, wind turbine and industrial application" was invented by Daniel Flaswinkel (Bocholt, Germany) and Andre Jansen (Borken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling for attaching a transmission to a drive shaft includes a circumferential intermediate piece including a drive-side flange, an output-side flange which is axially connected fixedly to the drive-side flange, and longitudinal webs connecting the drive-side flange to the output-side flange and configured in one piece with the drive-side flange and wit...