US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on April 7 for "Transmission for a coaxial two-machine electric drive of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,840, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Transmission for a coaxial two-machine electric drive of a motor vehicle" was invented by Thomas Skardelly (Ismaning, Germany) and Dominik Suckart (Erding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission for transmitting torque from two coaxially arranged electric drive machines to two wheels of a drive axle of a motor vehicle, wherein each of the drive machines is connected to a wheel of the drive axle via a speed-reduction sub-transmission for transmitting torque. The sub-transmissions have coaxial drive shafts, coaxial intermediate shafts and coax...