US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on July 21 for "Flywheel arrangement, a vehicle and a method of manufacturing a flywheel arrangement" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,216, issued on July 21, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Flywheel arrangement, a vehicle and a method of manufacturing a flywheel arrangement" was invented by Ola Nilsson (Varberg, Sweden), Par Ohrfeldt (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Odul Bilen (Hisings Backa, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flywheel arrangement for an engine of a vehicle, includes: a flywheel configured to be connected to a crankshaft of the engine for common rotation around a center axis, a pendulum weight arranged between the center axis and a radially peripheral surface of the flywheel, the pendulum weight being movable with respect to th...