US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Dec. 9 for "Deflector for fan housing of cleaning system of combine harvester" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,680, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Deflector for fan housing of cleaning system of combine harvester" was invented by Frank R. G. Duquesne (Zwevegem, Belgium), Jonathan E. Ricketts (Coal Valley, Ill.), Curtis Frederick Hillen (Lititz, Pa.), Michiel Vanderstichele (Merkem, Belgium) and Bart Moutton (Gits, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan assembly for a cleaning system of a combine harvester includes a housing having a plurality of interconnected walls, the interconnected walls defining least one inlet opening through which air is delivered into the housing, and at least on...