US Patent Issued to DENSO on March 24 for "Drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,071, issued on March 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Drive device" was invented by Tomoaki Yoshimi (Kariya-city, Japan), Yasufumi Matsuo (Kariya-city, Japan) and Kunihiko Matsuda (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device includes a motor with two sets of motor windings and a control unit. The control unit has a board on which an electronic component related to energization control of the motor windings are mounted, a connector unit, and a cover member that covers control components including the board, and is provided on one side in a axial direction of the motor. The connector unit has...