US Patent Issued to DENSO on Aug. 11 for "Drive device and drive device unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,498, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Drive device and drive device unit" was invented by Hideaki Suzuki (Kariya-city, Japan), Masaharu Sakai (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazutoshi Nishinakamura (Kariya-city, Japan), Shun Sugita (Kariya-city, Japan), Haruhiko Watanabe (Kariya-city, Japan) and Jiro Hayashi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An EDS includes a motor housing and an inverter housing. The inverter housing includes inverter fins. The motor housing includes forward inclined fins serving as motor fins. The forward inclined fins are provided on an outer peripheral surface. The forward i...