ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,067, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan) and MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYA K.K. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Yuki Yanagihara (Kariya, Japan), Ryotaro Nakashima (Kariya, Japan), Takeshi Tezuka (Kariya, Japan), Naoki Takahashi (Tokyo), Kiminobu Terao (Tokyo), Takuya Ogasawara (Okazaki, Japan) and Yosuke Morimoto (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first transmission system includes at least one gear disposed on a second axis, the at least one gear including a first outer gear disposed on an outermost side in a radial direction, and a second transmission system includes at least one g...