US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Jan. 27 for "Device for transmitting compressed air or control and/or working pressures in a cardan shaft arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,915, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Device for transmitting compressed air or control and/or working pressures in a cardan shaft arrangement" was invented by Martin Spindler (Herdwangen-Schonach, Germany), Andreas Haering (Owingen, Germany), Bruno Schulze Selting (Rielasingen-Worblingen, Germany) and Erwin Braun (Owingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotation transmission apparatus for transmitting control and/or working pressures to a fluid channel, which is at least regionally configured or accommodated on or in a shaft, in particular a drive shaft, wherein the rotation tr...