US Patent Issued to VALEO KAPEC TORQUE CONVERTERS (NANJING) on April 14 for "Sealing assembly, hydraulic torque converter and vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,394, issued on April 14, was assigned to VALEO KAPEC TORQUE CONVERTERS (NANJING) Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Sealing assembly, hydraulic torque converter and vehicle" was invented by Zizhu Wang (Nanjing, China), Xun Hu (Nanjing, China), Zane Yang (Nanjing, China) and Cong Yin (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing assembly for a torque converter includes a hub mounted on a drive shaft and having an axial extension portion, and a sealing member disposed between the axial extension portion of the hub and the drive shaft and arranged to seal a portion between the hub and the drive shaft. The hub further includes an in...