ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,219, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to EXEDY Corp. (Neyagawa, Japan).
"Drive unit and transmission device" was invented by Yoshihiro Matsuoka (Neyagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary gear mechanism includes a sun gear, a planet gear, a ring gear, and a planet carrier. An input member couples an electric motor to the ring gear or the sun gear. An output member is coupled to the planet carrier. A first clutch couples/decouples the input member and the output member. A selectable one-way clutch is disposed between a stationary member and the other of the ring gear and the sun gear. In a first operating mode, the sele...