ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,077, issued on Sept. 8, 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: "The vehicle drive system includes a motor that has a stator and a rotor provided in the stator and that drives a drive wheel of a vehicle by rotation of the rotor. The rotor has: plural secondary conductors that are aligned in a circumferential direction in a radially outer portion; and plural permanent magnets that are aligned in the circumferential direction in a portion on a radially inner side of these plural secondary conductors. An ECU and a motor ECU ca...