ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,560, issued on April 14, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Vehicle drive system" was invented by Kei Yonemori (Aki-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive system includes a motor that has a cylindrical stator and a cylindrical rotor provided in the stator to be coaxially rotatable with a center axis of the stator and drives a front wheel of a vehicle by rotation of the rotor. The rotor has a cage section and a permanent magnet section provided on an inner circumferential side of the cage section and formed of a rare earth magnet. The vehicle drive system further includes a controller that execu...