US Patent Issued to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP on March 17 for "Electric axle with compact electric machine and gearbox arrangement" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,708, issued on March 17, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Electric axle with compact electric machine and gearbox arrangement" was invented by Eric M. Engerman (Plymouth, Mich.) and Burke Smith (Bruce Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an electric axle. The electric axle includes, in one example, a first electric machine directly coupled to a sun gear of a planetary gear set and a second electric machine directly coupled to a carrier of a planetary gear set. The planetary gear set includes a set of planet gears that rotate on the carrier and an output gear that me...