US Patent Issued to BorgWarner on March 17 for "Variable camshaft timing assembly with deformable extension" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,894, issued on March 17, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Variable camshaft timing assembly with deformable extension" was invented by Shawn J. Blackmur (Brooktondale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable camshaft timing (VCT) assembly includes a rotor having a hub from which one or more vanes extend radially outwardly; and a stator having a stator cavity that receives the rotor and permits the rotor to rotate relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, wherein the stator includes a deformable extension that regulates a distance between the stator and another component of the VCT assembly."

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