US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies USA on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for active cooling of intake air for a hybrid cooled belt starter generator" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,541, issued on April 15, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies USA LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for active cooling of intake air for a hybrid cooled belt starter generator" was invented by Andrew Joseph Wisniewski (South Lyon, Mich.) and Laura Noel Church (Mancelona, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system for a belt starter generator, which has at least one housing portion, a plurality of flow apertures integrally formed as part of the housing portion, a heat sink connected to the housing portion, the heat sink cooled by liquid cooling, and a plurality of fins integrally formed as part of the heat sin...