ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,517, issued on March 18, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).
"Electric motor having electromagnetically actuatable brake" was invented by Torsten Epskamp (Bretten, Germany), Gerolf Fichtner-Pflaum (Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany) and Alexander Stahl (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electric motor having electromagnetically actuatable brake, the brake has a coil received in a magnet body. A brake lining carrier is connected, rotation-fast but axially displaceable, to a rotor shaft of the electric motor, and an armature disk is connected, rotation-fast but axially displaceable, to...