US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Sept. 30 for "Assembly for lubricating a gearwheel of a transmission, a transmission and a vehicle" (Swedish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,129, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Assembly for lubricating a gearwheel of a transmission, a transmission and a vehicle" was invented by Anna Wikstrom (Goteborg, France), Anders Hedman (Marstrand, Sweden) and Henrik Hagerman (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for lubricating a gearwheel of a transmission includes a shaft arranged to rotate about a rotational axis extending in an axial direction, the gearwheel arranged rotationally fixed on the shaft, a first ring member arranged coaxially and rotationally fixed on the shaft adjacent the gearwheel, and a lubri...