US Patent Issued to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 17 for "Throttle valve body assembly with compensated control" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,270, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Throttle valve body assembly with compensated control" was invented by Xavier Moine (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustion engine throttle body includes an air circulation duct with a throttle valve rotationally mounted therein, a DC electric motor opening or closing of the throttle valve and includes a rotor having a cogging torque that oscillates with a predefined period. A position sensor measures the throttle valve position. An electronic control unit receives the position values of the throttle valve, calculates a thr...