ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,070, issued on May 13, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Electrical drive device and drive assembly" was invented by Steffen Lehmann (Ettlingen, Germany), Andreas Trinkenschuh (Buhl, Germany), Dirk Bleckmann (Werdohl, Germany) and Dominik Weis (Buhl, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical drive device includes a machine unit having a machine housing and power electronics having an electronics housing. At least one of the two housings having at least one protrusion for defined positioning of the machine unit and the power electronics against each other during and/or after ass...