ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,350, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Torque converter with pulling bias spring" was invented by Mark Hendricks (Akron, Ohio), Jeremy Jewell (Wooster, Ohio) and David Avins (Burbank, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque converter includes: a front cover arranged to receive torque; an impeller having an impeller shell non-rotatably connected to the front cover; a turbine in fluid communication with the impeller and including a turbine shell; and a damper assembly disposed axially between the front cover and the turbine shell. The damper assembly includes a fir...