US Patent Issued to DAF Trucks on Sept. 22 for "Electric axle drive for a vehicle wheel axle" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,491, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DAF Trucks N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Electric axle drive for a vehicle wheel axle" was invented by Michel Verrips (Leerbroek, Netherlands), Jordan Michael Houser (Fort Worth, Texas) and Nikhil Naresh Gadve (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric axle drive comprises a gear assembly having a first planetary gear set and a second planetary gear set. The gear assembly further comprises a spline ring that is provided with internal splines along an axial direction of the spline ring and that is slidably provided over ring wheel of the first planetary gear set havin...