US Patent Issued to Maxon International on Dec. 16 for "Flexible gearwheel disc and flexible gearwheel for a high-reduction gear mechanism, and a high-reduction gear mechanism of this type" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,030, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Maxon International AG (Sachseln, Switzerland).

"Flexible gearwheel disc and flexible gearwheel for a high-reduction gear mechanism, and a high-reduction gear mechanism of this type" was invented by Ernst Von Lehmann (Glottertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The flexible gearwheel disc is configured for a high-reduction gear mechanism that has at least two gearwheel segments which are arranged next to one another in the circumferential direction of the gearwheel disc and are connected to one another by means of spring segments. The gear mechanism includes a flexible gearwheel with at ...