US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on Sept. 22 for "Planetary pinion input electric drive unit" (Texas, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,426, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Planetary pinion input electric drive unit" was invented by Jeffrey M. David (Cedar Park, Texas) and William F. Waltz (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an electric drive unit. The electric drive unit includes, in one example, a set of electric machines where each electric machine is coupled to a pinion gear in a set of pinion devices of a planetary assembly. The planetary assembly includes a carrier that is mechanically grounded, a ring device, and a sun device. In the planetary assembly, the ring device ...