US Patent Issued to SCHWABISCHE HUTTENWERKE AUTOMOTIVE on Jan. 27 for "Oil sump, in particular oil filter module, with a multi-part housing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,022, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SCHWABISCHE HUTTENWERKE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH (Aalen, Germany).

"Oil sump, in particular oil filter module, with a multi-part housing" was invented by Enis Kostic (Bad Buchau, Germany), Harald Kunzi (Winnenden, Germany), Sven Peters (Bad Schussenried, Germany) and Gerd Jaggle (Ettingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oil sump for supplying an assembly of a motor vehicle, including: a housing including a housing frame and a closure part, such as for example a housing cover, which is joined to the housing frame; an oil accommodating space enclosed by the housing. The housing frame circumfere...