US Patent Issued to FRANCE REDUCTEURS on July 1 for "Device for driving rotation or translation of a shaft for a machine tool or wheeled vehicle" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,111, issued on July 1, was assigned to FRANCE REDUCTEURS (Les Herbiers, France).

"Device for driving rotation or translation of a shaft for a machine tool or wheeled vehicle" was invented by Wouter Barendrecht (Cholet, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device (1) for driving either rotation or translation of a shaft (2). It comprises an electric motor (3) that comprises a stator (4) and a single rotor (5) supporting the shaft (capable of being turned in two directions). Through an activatable/deactivatable system (9) which engages or disengages at least one element (71, 72), the device (1) is either in the first con...