ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,999, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Overload clutch for a hand-held power tool" was invented by Maximilian Weinbrecht (Altdorf, Germany), Michael Haigis (Merklingen, Germany), Selim Mustafa (Waiblingen, Germany) and Thomas Duerr (Asperg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial bearing for reducing wear is provided in an overload clutch for arrangement between a drive unit and a power take-off unit of a hand-held power tool in order to enable decoupling of the drive unit from the power take-off unit in the hand-held power tool when a limit torque is exceeded."
The patent was filed ...