US Patent Issued to PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY on July 21 for "Automotive electric oil pump" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,166, issued on July 21, was assigned to PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Neuss, Germany).

"Automotive electric oil pump" was invented by Gianluca Simonetti (Neuss, Germany), Vlad-Dumitru Vezentan (Neuss, Germany) and Alessandro Malvasi (Neuss, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive electric oil pump includes a static pump housing, an electric drive motor, a rotatable pump wheel, and a control module. The static pump housing defines a pumping chamber and a motor chamber which are fluidically connected to each other. The electric drive motor is arranged within the motor chamber. The electric drive motor has a motor stator a...