ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,951, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Drive unit" was invented by Mamoru Yokota (Kanagawa, Japan), Youji Okano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Tsukagoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuma Kinoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit includes: an electric unit including a first electric motor for driving, a deceleration mechanism configured to transmit a rotation torque of the first electric motor to a drive wheel, a second electric motor configured to be driven by an internal combustion engine to generate electric power, and an acceleration mec...