US Patent Issued to SEW-EURODRIVE on July 22 for "Gear motor including an electric motor and a gearbox" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,282, issued on July 22, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Gear motor including an electric motor and a gearbox" was invented by Jens Schillinger (Rastatt, Germany), Sven Wurzer (Graben-Neudorf, Germany), Stefan Hannet (Schwetzingen, Germany), Markus Lutz (Oberhausen-Rheinhausen, Germany), Markus Woppermann (Karlsbad, Germany) and Philipp Abele (Hirschberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear motor includes an electric motor and a gearbox. The electric motor has a stator housing, a rotor shaft, and a first bearing for mounting the rotor shaft. A coupling sleeve is fitted onto the rotor shaft a...