US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on July 7 for "Electric drive axle with multi-speed gearbox" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,504, issued on July 7, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM (Bruges, Belgium).

"Electric drive axle with multi-speed gearbox" was invented by Kurt Cattoor (Koolkerke, Belgium), Filip D. Schacht (Meulebeke, Belgium) and Filip Van Raepenbusch (Bruges, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric axle and electric axle product line. The electric axle includes, in one example, a multi-speed gearbox assembly rotationally coupled to a first electric machine and including a first shaft with a first clutch positioned coaxial thereto and a second shaft with a second clutch positioned coaxial thereto. In the multi-speed gearbox assembly, the firs...