US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on July 22 for "Method for forming a double layer wet friction material with cellulose layer" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,275, issued on July 22, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method for forming a double layer wet friction material with cellulose layer" was invented by Michael Yanetta (Valley City, Ohio), Murat Bakan (Wooster, Ohio) and Rashid Farahati (Copley, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a wet friction material includes coating a first outer surface of a cellulose layer with a friction coating; placing a matrix of fibers and filler particles on a second outer surface of the cellulose layer; and saturating the matrix of fibers and filler particles with a binder and curing the b...