US Patent Issued to AISIN on Aug. 11 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,343, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Yoshiaki Ito (Kariya, Japan), Takahiro Fujiwara (Kariya, Japan) and Makoto Chujo (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In engagement control for changing a clutch WSC from a disengaged state to a fully engaged state after engagement determination is made on the clutch WSC, a control device executes an engagement preparation phase in which no torque capacity is generated and an actual engagement phase in which a torque capacity is generated and the fully engaged state is achieved. In a case where a vehicle is traveling w...