US Patent Issued to Goerend Transmissions on March 3 for "Piston spring return assembly for automatic transmission" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,915, issued on March 3, was assigned to Goerend Transmissions Inc. (Saint Lucas, Iowa).

"Piston spring return assembly for automatic transmission" was invented by Chase Langreck (Saint Lucas, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring assembly for the clutch of an automatic transmission includes a plurality of springs residing between upper and lower retaining rings which are secured together with a plurality of fasteners. The spring assembly is compressed against the force of the springs when the clutch piston is applied to engage the clutch, and then expanded when the clutch piston is released to disengage the clutch. The fastene...