US Patent Issued to FLENDER on Oct. 28 for "Testing of planetary transmissions without planetary carrier bearing" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,211, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FLENDER GMBH (Bocholt, Germany).

"Testing of planetary transmissions without planetary carrier bearing" was invented by Ralf Hambrecht (Bocholt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test bench for testing a planetary transmission is provided. In order to utilize the test bench for a planetary transmission without a planetary carrier bearing, the test bench has a central bearing unit. The central bearing unit is configured to rotatably mount a planetary carrier of a first stage of the planetary transmission, and the central bearing unit is configured, furthermore, to center an internal gear ...