ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,547, issued on March 24, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).
"Multi-speed electric axle" was invented by 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 an input shaft, a planetary gear set including a ring gear meshed with a gear fixedly coupled to the input shaft and a carrier that is rotationally coupled to a shaft, a first clutch configured to selectively ground a sun gear in the first planetary gear set, and a second clutch configu...