ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,276, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Gearbox and drive unit with such a gearbox" was invented by Johannes Kaltenbach (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Thomas Martin (Weissensberg, Germany), Fabian Kutter (Kressbronn, Germany), Johannes Gluckler (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Kai Borntrager (Langenargen, Germany) and Stefan Renner (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearbox has an input shaft, an output shaft, three shifting elements, and three planetary gearsets each having a sun shaft, ring gear shaft, and web shaft. The first sun shaft, the second sun shaft, an...