US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 4 for "Electrified vehicle with oriented parking mechanism" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,863, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle with oriented parking mechanism" was invented by Ji Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.) and Wei Wu (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes a multi-phase electric machine having a rotor with a number of magnetic pole pairs and secured for rotation with an output shaft. A parking gear secured for rotation with the output shaft has external teeth configured to selectively engage a parking pawl. The parking gear, the rotor, and the output shaft include complementary angula...