US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 4 for "Drive unit having a buffer chamber that separates a motor chamber from a storage portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,504, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Drive unit having a buffer chamber that separates a motor chamber from a storage portion" was invented by Takashi Wakui (Saitama, Japan), Shinji Kato (Saitama, Japan) and Masaru Sora (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit includes a drive motor, a drive unit case having a motor chamber in which the drive motor is accommodated, a heat exchanger which cools a cooling fluid for cooling the drive motor, and a storage portion which stores the cooling fluid. The drive unit case is formed with a buffer chamber separated from the motor chamber and adjacent to th...