ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,017, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Gear system with compliant anti-backlash features" was invented by Michal Nozka (Brno, Czech Republic), Tomas Ripel (Brno, Czech Republic) and Antonin Skarolek (Brno, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gear systems provide backlash control at low loading and effective load carrying at increased loading. A gear system with backlash control includes at least two meshing gears. One of the gears has a gear section configured for carrying loads and another gear section configured to control backlash. The gear sections are connected together...