ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,012, issued on July 29, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Safety braking device with two braking stages" was invented by Juergen Wiker (Stuttgart, Germany), Daniel Dennis (Nuertingen, Germany) and Florian Esenwein (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety braking device for a machine tool for braking a processing tool driven by an electric motor via an output unit, more particularly an output shaft, includes at least one braking device which is provided to halt rotation of the output unit in a braking process. The braking device has at least a first braking stage and a second bra...