US Patent Issued to LORD on Aug. 26 for "Multiple stage torsional coupling with centering bearing and coil spring snubbing" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,761, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LORD Corp. (Cary, N.C.).

"Multiple stage torsional coupling with centering bearing and coil spring snubbing" was invented by Timothy J. Kubat (Fairview, Pa.) and Nicholas C. McEldowney (Erie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multi-stage torsional coupling and associated methods of providing variable stiffness, the coupling has an inner member connected to a first torsional connection, a sprocket plate connected to the inner member, one or more plates connected to a second torsional connection, an outer member rigidly attached to the one or more plates, and a plurality of damping stages a...