US Patent Issued on Oct. 21 for "Crankshaft arrangement with torsional vibration damper" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,016, issued on Oct. 21.

"Crankshaft arrangement with torsional vibration damper" was invented by Michael Steidl (Berlin) and Michael Granzin (Hoppegarten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crankshaft arrangement for a combustion engine includes a crankshaft and a torsional vibration damper having a primary mass and an inertia ring. The primary mass is fixedly connected to the crankshaft, and the inertia ring and the primary mass are coupled via a viscous fluid. The torsional vibration damper is attached to an output end of the crankshaft. The primary mass is coupled to a secondary coupling via an elastic coupling device. The t...