US Patent Issued to BRP-ROTAX on July 14 for "Electric vehicle drive unit cooling system" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,464, issued on July 14, was assigned to BRP-ROTAX GMBH & Co. KG (Gunskirchen, Austria).

"Electric vehicle drive unit cooling system" was invented by Eugen Swoboda (Schwanenstadt, Austria) and Thomas Kritzinger (Frankenburg am Hausruck, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit for an electric vehicle has an outrunner motor. The outrunner motor has: a motor housing; a rotor disposed in the motor housing; a stator disposed in the motor housing and radially inward of the rotor, the stator having a plurality of stator coils; and an output shaft disposed radially inward of the stator, the output shaft being driven by the rotor, ...