US Patent Issued to Hoerbiger Antriebstechnik Holding on Oct. 7 for "Electromagnetic clutch and method of actuating an electromagnetic clutch" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,763, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hoerbiger Antriebstechnik Holding GmbH (Schongau, Germany).

"Electromagnetic clutch and method of actuating an electromagnetic clutch" was invented by Juergen Binder (Schongau, Germany), Peter Echtler (Schongau, Germany), Andreas Dempfle (Schongau, Germany), Werner Fuerguth (Schongau, Germany), Wolfgang Voelk (Schongau, Germany), Oleg Butorin (Schongau, Germany) and Sebastian Kucharek (Schongau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic clutch is specified, includes a shifting sleeve which is arranged on a shaft for joint rotation therewith and is linearly displaceable along the s...