ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,461, issued on June 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Drive device and drive device unit" was invented by Shun Sugita (Kariya-city, Japan), Masaharu Sakai (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazutoshi Nishinakamura (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 motor fins and motor guide plates. The motor fins and the motor guide plates are provided on an outer peripheral surface. Each of the motor guide plates is aligned with the motor fins along the outer periph...