Article: Patent No. 7,472,619 Issued on Jan. 6, Assigned to Hansen Transmissions International for Gear Unit (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7 -- Dirk-Olaf Leimann of Antwerp, Belgium, has developed a gear unit with a housing. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,472,619 on Jan. 6.

The patent has been assigned to Hansen Transmissions International NV, Antwerp.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear unit includes a housing, two shafts arranged parallel with one another and each supporting a helically cut toothed gear, and two pairs of bearings supported by or relative to the housing in an arrangement in which each pair of bearings rotatably supports a shaft with the toothed gears of the two shafts being rotatable one relative to the ...

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