US Patent Issued to MAHLE INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 16 for "Method for the production of a shielded impeller, shielded impeller and fan" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,314, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for the production of a shielded impeller, shielded impeller and fan" was invented by Uwe Aschermann (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the production of a shielded impeller is provided, wherein the shielded impeller contains blades extending from a hub and a shield ring encompassing the ends of the blades that rotates with the shielded impeller, wherein the shield ring has radial widenings on the back edge and points without radial widenings wherein the shielded impeller is produced in a plastic injection mol...