US Patent Issued to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP on April 21 for "Multi-speed electric axle with coaxial architecture" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,999, issued on April 21, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Multi-speed electric axle with coaxial architecture" was invented by Trent Windom (Waterville, Ohio) and Eric M. Engerman (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a multi-speed electric axle. The multi-speed electric axle includes, in one example, an electric machine rotationally coupled to sun gear in a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set rotationally coupled to a carrier in the first planetary gear set, a third planetary gear set rotationally coupled to the second planetary gear set, and a di...