US Patent Issued to SKF MARINE on Feb. 3 for "Drive device and fin stabilizer" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,945, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SKF MARINE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Drive device and fin stabilizer" was invented by Dirk Bargende (Elmshorn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device of a fin stabilizer is for pivoting a stabilizer fin about its fin shaft axis. The drive device includes a drive motor with an output shaft and a transmission including an input shaft. A fixing device for fixing the stabilizer fin in a pivot position acts directly on the transmission input shaft. A coupling is for conjoint-rotation connection of the transmission input shaft to the motor output shaft disposed at least sectionally in an...