US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on March 18 for "Method for producing a threaded nut of a threaded drive, in particular a ball screw nut of a ball screw drive" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,144, issued on March 18, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method for producing a threaded nut of a threaded drive, in particular a ball screw nut of a ball screw drive" was invented by Mario Kreutzer (Sonneberg, Germany), Dieter Eckert (Furth, Germany), Paul Heinz (Forchheim, Germany) and Richard Baier (Aurachtal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for producing a threaded nut of a threaded drive. In a forming process, a sleeve is produced from a steel sheet which is suitable for case-hardening. A flange is integrally formed on the sleeve for weldi...