US Patent Issued to AISIN on May 26 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,072, issued on May 26, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Tomoyuki Suzuki (Kariya, Japan) and Nozomu Takahashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case includes a rotary electric machine housing chamber that houses a rotary electric machine, and an oil storage space provided in a lower part of the rotary electric machine housing chamber. At least one of a pair of output members is disposed in a space that communicates with the rotary electric machine housing chamber. An oil pump is disposed in the oil storage space at a position on a lower side of a first axis that is a rota...