US Patent Issued to ENTEC-STRACON on March 11 for "Method, casting mold, and apparatus for producing a vehicle wheel" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,375, issued on March 11, was assigned to ENTEC-STRACON GmbH (Aalen, Germany).

"Method, casting mold, and apparatus for producing a vehicle wheel" was invented by Ralf Bux (Aalen, Germany) and Friedrich Klein (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a vehicle wheel from a light metal material is disclosed herein. The light metal material is introduced in liquid form into a mold cavity of a casting mold and pressurized casting is then used to produce the vehicle wheel. The casting mold is temperature-controlled, where different regions of the casting mold are maintained at different temperatures. An appara...