ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,560, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MUVIQ S.R.L. (Ivrea, Italy).
"Filtering pulley" was invented by Gianluca Cariccia (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy), Andrea Guala (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy) and Gilberto Delle Rose (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering pulley for an accessory transmission of an internal combustion engine has a hub, a crown, a filtering unit for transmitting the torque that is interposed between the hub and the crown, a torsion spring, a carrier, and a torque limiting joint. The torque limiting joint has an open-loop strip spring and is configured to slide with respect to a surfa...