US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Jan. 27 for "Drive train arrangement for providing pressurized gas" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,942, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Drive train arrangement for providing pressurized gas" was invented by Fredrik Rahm (Horby, Sweden) and Johan Carlen Andersson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive train arrangement includes an internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder having a combustion gas inlet, and an exhaust outlet; an exhaust gas pump having a pump inlet coupled to the exhaust outlet, and a pump outlet coupled to a vehicle air tank and to the combustion gas inlet. A first flow control arrangement controls fluid flow from the pump outlet to the combustio...