US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Planetary gearbox having a rotationally fixed thrust washer of the planet bearing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,132, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Planetary gearbox having a rotationally fixed thrust washer of the planet bearing" was invented by Frank Schoenstein (Baiersdorf, Germany), Wolfgang Fugel (Nuremberg, Germany) and Andreas Kirschner (Aurachtal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary gearbox includes a planet carrier having stop faces, planet journals, planet bearings, planet gears and thrust washers. Each of the planetary gears is arranged on one of the planet journals by one of the planet bearings. Each thrust washer is arranged between the planet car...