ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,474, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG Wuerzburg (Wuerzburg, Germany).
"Cooling fan and cooling fan module" was invented by Christian Froh (Cuxhaven, Germany), Bernd Maurer (Bad Zwischenahn, Germany) and Thomas Dreesen (Oldenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling fan has a fan shroud with a fan wheel recess surrounded by a shroud ring and a fan wheel rotatably mounted in the fan wheel recess for conveying the air flow along a conveying direction from a shroud upper side to a shroud underside. The fan wheel has a central hub cup with radially orientated blades and an outer ring connecti...