Patent 7547273 was granted and assigned to Hiller on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A drive device for screw centrifuges has a rotating drum driven by a drum driving motor, and a screw mounted coaxially in the drum and having a screw shaft. A screw drive motor for rotating the screw has a housing rotatably fixed to the drum and an electric torque motor rotatably fixed to the screw shaft and disconnected from the drum driving motor.