US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Nov. 25 for "Centering the housing parts of an axial piston machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,402, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Centering the housing parts of an axial piston machine" was invented by Martin Zug (Hirrlingen, Germany), Stefan Merz (Hechingen, Germany), Felix Hoffmann (Baden-Baden Steinbach, Germany) and Manuel Sell (Horb, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrostatic axial piston machine is disclosed, in the housing of which a drive shaft is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation. The housing comprises a pot-like housing part having a first abutment and a cover-like housing part having a second abutment. The two abutments are clamped against one another...