US Patent Issued to Flender on Nov. 25 for "Double-jointed coupling, bogie, rail vehicle, industrial application and computer program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,548, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Flender GmbH (Bocholt, Germany).

"Double-jointed coupling, bogie, rail vehicle, industrial application and computer program product" was invented by Andre Jansen (Borken, Germany) and Michael Schnucklake (Bocholt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double-jointed coupling includes a carrier ring with an internal tooth arrangement, a hollow pinion shaft connected to the internal tooth arrangement of the carrier ring, and an intermediate shaft with a coupling tooth arrangement for engagement in the internal tooth arrangement. The coupling tooth arrangement is constructed on the intermediate...