US Patent Issued to KSB on Nov. 3 for "Centrifugal pump having a cooling insert" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,757, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KSB SE & Co KGaA (Frankenthal, Germany).

"Centrifugal pump having a cooling insert" was invented by Lukas Buthmann (Frankenthal, Germany), Rudolf Ens (Frankenthal, Germany), Tobias Froeba (Frankenthal, Germany) and Florian Kober (Frankenthal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal pump includes a shaft arrangement and a cooling insert. The shaft sealing arrangement includes a rotating element and a stationary element, which form a sealing gap associated with a lubricating film in a chamber. The cooling insert has a first region and a second region. The first region at least partiall...