US Patent Issued to PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Controllable mechanical motor vehicle coolant pump" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,222, issued on April 15, was assigned to PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Neuss, Germany).

"Controllable mechanical motor vehicle coolant pump" was invented by Laurent Finidori (Bertrange, France), Jerome Kremer (Inglange, France), Gilles Simon (Montois la Montagne, France) and Gilles Rybicki (Metz, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controllable mechanical motor vehicle coolant pump includes a rotatable drive shaft co-rotatably connected with a coolant pump wheel, a transverse housing surface extending transversely with respect to and surrounding the drive shaft, a cylindrical inner slider support surface radially surrounding the ...