US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on April 21 for "Transmission device for driving a fan of a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine, associated cooling circuit, and vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,142, issued on April 21, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Transmission device for driving a fan of a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine, associated cooling circuit, and vehicle" was invented by Tobias Husberg (Kareby, Sweden) and Marcos Lima (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transmission device between an engine and a fan comprises an input device, configured to be driven in rotation by the engine, and an output device, configured to be linked to the fan so as to drive the fan in rotation. Advantageously, the transmission device also comprises a first clutch, which is linked to ...