US Patent Issued to AISIN on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,494, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Takuya Watanabe (Kariya, Japan), Ryohei Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Keisuke Takemoto (Kariya, Japan), Takuya Katsuda (Kariya, Japan), Kazuhiro Hagita (Kariya, Japan) and Hidefumi Koashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offset gear mechanism in a power transmission mechanism is arranged on a different axis in an axis-orthogonal direction from an axis on which a rotary electric machine and an output member are arranged. The rotary electric machine and the power transmission mechanism are arranged in a first housi...