US Patent Issued to Volvo Construction Equipment on June 24 for "Converting vibration energy to electrical energy in a vibratory compaction machine" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,585, issued on June 24, was assigned to Volvo Construction Equipment AB (Eskilstuna, Sweden).

"Converting vibration energy to electrical energy in a vibratory compaction machine" was invented by Fares Beainy (Breinigsville, Pa.), Hongan Xu (Mechanicsville, Pa.) and Ashraf Zeid (Carlisle, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibratory compaction machine includes one or more vibratory energy converter assemblies. Each vibratory energy converter assembly includes a housing coupled to the vibratory compaction machine, which transfers vibration energy from an eccentric vibration system of the vibratory compaction machine to the vibratory ...