US Patent Issued to PUNCH POWERTRAIN PSA E-TRANSMISSIONS on June 23 for "Dual clutch transmission system" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,058, issued on June 23, was assigned to PUNCH POWERTRAIN PSA E-TRANSMISSIONS N.V. (Sint-Truiden, Belgium).

"Dual clutch transmission system" was invented by Roy Bastiaansen (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Rens Obelink (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Bert Johannes Cornelis Van Bakel (Sint-Truiden, Belgium) and Chi Wai Chan (Sint-Truiden, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual clutch transmission for a motor vehicle power train for selectively coupling rotating transmission members includes a base assembly, a bearing mounted rotating assembly which is rotatable with respect to the base assembly, first and second torque transmission assemblies...