ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,423, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo) and MEIDENSHA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Tsuyoshi Takahashi (Tokyo), Kiminobu Terao (Tokyo), Yosuke Morimoto (Okazaki, Japan), Takuya Ogasawara (Okazaki, Japan), Hiromichi Akiyama (Tokyo) and Dai Oono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive device (10) includes: a motor unit (1) that includes a motor for driving mounted on a vehicle and a gear mechanism that transmits torque of the motor to each of left and right wheels of the vehicle; and an inverter (4) that is arranged over the motor unit (1) and that includes a c...