ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,649, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SCHUNK SINTERMETALLTECHNIK GMBH (Heuchelheim, Germany).
"Method for producing a sintered component" was invented by Franz-Josef Schleifstein (Schmallenberg, Germany), Johannes Heyde (Wetzlar, Germany) and Torsten Wendt (Wetzlar, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a sintered component in the form of a workpiece having teeth, wherein crowning, with a central region and end regions, is formed in flanks of teeth, the tooth thickness being smaller in at least one of the end regions than in the central region of the flanks. In order to form the crowning, at least one pressi...