US Patent Issued to Valeo Electrification on Sept. 1 for "Frame for a device for regulating the air intake of a vehicle" (French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,475, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Valeo Electrification (Cergy Pontoise, France).

"Frame for a device for regulating the air intake of a vehicle" was invented by Frederic Vacca (La Verriere, France) and Juan-Carlos De Francisco (Saragossa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frame for an air intake regulating device of a vehicle, including at least two walls participating in defining an opening zone for receiving a set of movable flaps arranged parallel to one another, at least one movable flap being movable in rotation about at least one pivot axis, at least one bearing supported by an elastically deformable tab, the bearin...