US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Nov. 25 for "Harmonic gear systems having redundant load paths between input and output shafts" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,567, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Harmonic gear systems having redundant load paths between input and output shafts" was invented by Derick Balsiger (Prescott Valley, Ariz.) and Keith A. Bloxham (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harmonic gear system, having: a housing; an input shaft having an aft end within the housing that defines a wave generator; a wave generator bearing; first and second nested cup-shaped flex splines that are grounded to the housing, the first and second flex splines are biased by the wave generator via the wave generator bearing; an output shaf...