US Patent Issued to EXEDY on March 3 for "Drive unit having an auxiliary electric motor for supplementarily outputting a torque" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,780, issued on March 3, was assigned to EXEDY Corp. (Neyagawa, Japan).

"Drive unit having an auxiliary electric motor for supplementarily outputting a torque" was invented by Yuki Kawahara (Neyagawa, Japan), Misaki Minoha (Neyagawa, Japan) and Hitoshi Terabayashi (Neyagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit is configured to prevent an auxiliary electric motor from being rotated, which could otherwise cause the back electromotive voltage thereof to exceed the maximum rated voltage. The drive unit includes a drive source, a shaft, an auxiliary electric motor, and a clutch. The shaft is configured to transmit a torque ou...