US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on Oct. 20 for "Drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,216, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Drive device" was invented by Kazuki Eguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuichi Nakata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine includes a motor housing, and the motor housing has a recessed portion in an upper portion. The inverter device includes an inverter housing having a lid shape, an electric component is disposed toward the rotary electric machine on an inner surface of the inverter housing, and the inverter housing is fixed to the motor housing such that an accommodation chamber in whic...