US Patent Issued to SEW-EURODRIVE on July 8 for "Planetary-gear mechanism with a driving shaft and a first sun gear" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,348, issued on July 8, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Planetary-gear mechanism with a driving shaft and a first sun gear" was invented by Markus Lutz (Oberhausen-Rheinhausen, Germany) and Martin Loffel (Pfinztal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary-gear mechanism includes a driving shaft and a first sun gear. The first sun gear is connected to the driving shaft for cojoint rotation. The driving shaft has a bore, e.g., an axial bore. The first sun gear has a stub portion, and a screw is screwed into a threaded bore in the stub portion. The screw head presses onto a plate part, which pre...