US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Feb. 10 for "EGR and intake air mixing manifold with pancake plenum" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,276, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"EGR and intake air mixing manifold with pancake plenum" was invented by Anam Hasan (Bhilai, India), Sathish Chennoju (Karimnagar, India) and Arpan Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a mixing manifold for mixing intake air and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) air in an engine system. The mixing manifold includes a manifold chamber into which the intake air and the EGR air are received, the manifold chamber being an open, no mix-type chamber devoid of turbulence-inducing passages. The mixing manifold further includes a throat section hav...