US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on July 29 for "Hydrodynamic bearing arrangement for pump assembly" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,113, issued on July 29, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Hydrodynamic bearing arrangement for pump assembly" was invented by Arjun Kailassh Magalingam Adithyan (Charlotte, N.C.), James Brown (Rock Hill, S.C.) and Charles Schwab (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing configuration for an oil pump assembly is disclosed herein. The bearing configuration includes a first radially extending hydrodynamic bearing element configured to directly face a first axial side of a gear, a second radially extending hydrodynamic bearing element configured to directly face a second axial...