US Patent Issued to Liebherr-Components Biberach on Nov. 11 for "Trench cutter drive with decoupled inner wheel/integrated bearing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,220, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH (Biberach an der Riss, Germany).

"Trench cutter drive with decoupled inner wheel/integrated bearing" was invented by Roland Widmann (Unlingen, Germany) and Johannes Halder (Ertingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a drive device for a construction machine, in particular for a trench cutter, comprising a connection support and a wheel support, which is rotatably supported on the connection support via at least one rolling bearing and which can be rotationally driven relative to the connection support by a drive motor via at least...