US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on April 7 for "Driveline including a hydrodynamic retarder and method of operating a hydrodynamic retarder" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,845, issued on April 7, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM (Bruges, Belgium).

"Driveline including a hydrodynamic retarder and method of operating a hydrodynamic retarder" was invented by Christophe Debuyser (Bruges, Belgium) and Kevin Vyncke (Bruges, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document relates to a driveline for a vehicle, the driveline comprising a hydrodynamic retarder, a first driveline component such as a transmission input, and a controller configured to activate the hydrodynamic retarder at a point in time which is determined based on a rotational acceleration of the first driveline component. The present doc...