US Patent Issued to JATCO on May 12 for "Unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,525, issued on May 12, was assigned to JATCO Ltd (Fuji, Japan).

"Unit" was invented by Atsushi Maeda (Hadano, Japan), Minoru Shoichi (Hiratsuka, Japan), Hiroki Uehara (Hadano, Japan) and Akira Suwabayashi (Isehara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit includes: a rotating electrical machine; an inverter located in an outer periphery of the rotating electrical machine; a first gear connected downstream of the rotating electrical machine; a second gear to mesh with the first gear; a third gear connected downstream of the second gear via a shaft; and a fourth gear to mesh with the third gear. The shaft has a portion that overlaps ...