US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on June 17 for "In-shaft selective lube implementation for a wet clutch" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,792, issued on June 17, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).

"In-shaft selective lube implementation for a wet clutch" was invented by Jan A. Bedert (Oostduinkerke, Belgium), Kurt Cattoor (Koolkerke, Belgium), Jan Markey (Wingene, Belgium) and Filip D. Schacht (Meulebeke, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission system comprising: a lubrication valve that fluidly couples a lubrication line in fluidic communication with a multi-disc wet clutch; a clutch line in fluidic communication with a clutch actuator of the multi-disc wet clutch and the lubrication valve; a clutch control valve fluidly coupled to the ...