US Patent Issued to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN on Nov. 4 for "Traction drive system and method for operating a traction drive system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,718, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Traction drive system and method for operating a traction drive system" was invented by Rico Glockner (Pocking, Germany), Jan Doring (Passau, Germany) and Johannes Kugler (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction drive system for a work machine, including at least one electric motor, a transmission, and a controller. The controller is configured to select a gear ratio of the transmission depending on a change to be expected in a motor output of the at least one electric motor. The change to be expected in the motor outpu...