US Patent Issued to Nencki on Dec. 30 for "Wheel carrier for supporting a wheel arranged on a bogie and test stand for testing bogies of railway vehicles" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,440, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nencki AG (Switzerland).

"Wheel carrier for supporting a wheel arranged on a bogie and test stand for testing bogies of railway vehicles" was invented by Hans Borer (Lohn-Ammannsegg, Switzerland) and Thomas Schertenleib (Langenthal, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel carrier is disclosed for supporting a running wheel arranged on a bogie. The wheel carrier comprises a lifting unit with a platform. A first linear slide movable along a longitudinal guide extending in a running direction perpendicular to the application direction is included. Additionally, a second linear slide mov...