US Patent Issued to Mazda Motor on July 7 for "Powertrain structure of vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,545, issued on July 7, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Aki-gun, Japan).

"Powertrain structure of vehicle" was invented by Hiroaki Kashihara (Aki-gun, Japan), Takayuki Sato (Aki-gun, Japan) and Masayuki Okazaki (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powertrain structure of a vehicle includes an engine, a motor, a battery, a power converter, and a housing. The power converter includes a direct current (DC) busbar, a smoothing capacitor, a power module, and an alternating current (AC) busbar lined up in this order in a first direction, and a case accommodating these components. The case has a first accommodating part extendi...