US Patent Issued to SCHUNK CARBON TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 20 for "Contacting device for transmitting electric currents, and machines comprising such a contacting device" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,460, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SCHUNK CARBON TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Bad Goisern, Austria).

"Contacting device for transmitting electric currents, and machines comprising such a contacting device" was invented by Florian Huber (Bad Ischl, Austria), Markus Weber (Bad Goisern, Austria), Joachim Kurz (Bad Goisern, Austria) and Alexander Muellegger (Bad Ischl, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contacting device for transmitting electric currents of a rotor part of a machine, said rotor part being formed by a shaft and/or slip ring, to a machine, and to the use of a discharge device, wherein the discharge device comprises a conta...