US Patent Issued to Valeo Powertrain on March 17 for "Fluid pump with embedded heat dissipating plate" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,960, issued on March 17, was assigned to Valeo Powertrain GmbH (Ebern, Germany).

"Fluid pump with embedded heat dissipating plate" was invented by Christian Sperber (Ebern, Germany), Harry Steinmetz (Ebern, Germany), Andy Mikusch (Ebern, Germany), Dimitri Ostrohov (Ebern, Germany) and Marcel-Cornel Girbea (Ebern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid pump, in particular an oil pump for supplying a clutch actuator, a gearbox actuator, a lubrication system and/or a cooling system of a drive train. The fluid pump includes a housing, a stator, a control unit which is arranged at one end of the housing, and a heat-conducting ele...