US Patent Issued to AISIN on July 28 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,764, issued on July 28, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Tomoyuki Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Teppei Yamashita (Kariya, Japan), Takeshi Torii (Kariya, Japan) and Shoichi Yamasaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive device includes a rotating electrical machine, transmission mechanism, and inverter device. The rotating electrical machine and a pair of output members have a two-axis configuration. The transmission mechanism includes, coaxially with the output members, an output gear drivingly connected to the output members. A first output member is between the ro...