US Patent Issued to AISIN on July 21 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,221, issued on July 21, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Ryohei Inoue (Kariya, Japan) and Shinji Kondo (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case includes: a case body forming a first housing chamber housing a rotating electrical machine and gears and a second housing chamber housing an inverter device; and a cover member. The cover member is joined to an axial second side of the case body, and disposed to cover the axial second side of the first housing chamber. The case body includes a partition wall separating the first housing chamber and the second housing chamber, a p...