ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,030, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Turbine hub of a torque converter" was invented by Jorge Arturo Martinez Torres (Wooster, Ohio), William Norton (Fairview Park, Ohio) and Natalie Allen (Wadsworth, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque converter a cover arranged to receive torque for rotation about an axis; an impeller non-rotatably connected to the cover; a lock-up clutch including a piston; a turbine that includes a turbine shell and a turbine hub, the turbine hub comprising: a first plate to which the turbine shell is non-rotatably connected; a second p...