US Patent Issued to Cooper-Standard Automotive on March 25 for "Multilayer tube for automotive applications" (Japanese, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,083, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. (Northville, Mich.).

"Multilayer tube for automotive applications" was invented by Takahiro Endo (Ibaraki, Japan), Tao Nie (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Yingping Zhang (Oakland, Mich.) and He Wenbao (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer tube is provided for use in with transmission oil or heating and cooling fluid applications in motor vehicles. The multilayer tube has an outer layer comprising an aliphatic or an aromatic polyamide to provide protection from the outside environment; a middle layer of a lower cost material that comprises from 20...