US Patent Issued to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP on July 28 for "Electric axle assembly and operating method" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,754, issued on July 28, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Electric axle assembly and operating method" was invented by Thibault Devreese (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an electric axle assembly are provided herein. The electric axle assembly includes, in one example, an electric machine with a rotor shaft having an output gear thereon. The electric axle assembly further includes a planetary gearset with a carrier coupled to a pair of axle shafts, a first ring gear with external teeth that are rotationally coupled to the output gear; and a sun gear meshing with a...