US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on March 25 for "Balanced harmonic drive with output shaft disconnect" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,031, issued on March 25, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Balanced harmonic drive with output shaft disconnect" was invented by Derick S. Balsiger (Prescott Valley, Ariz.) and Keith A. Bloxham (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harmonic drive, having: a housing; an output shaft within the housing; an input shaft within the housing, the input shaft is configured for being in a first position in which rotation of the input shaft rotates the output shaft, and a second position that is axially offset from the first position, in which rotation of the input shaft does not rotate the output shaft;...