US Patent Issued to RIMAC TECHNOLOGY on April 14 for "Drive unit with stator, rotor, and planetary gear set" (Slovene, Slovenian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,555, issued on April 14, was assigned to RIMAC TECHNOLOGY LLC (Sveta Nedelja, Croatia).

"Drive unit with stator, rotor, and planetary gear set" was invented by Dominik Padovan (Nova Gorica, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a drive unit. The drive unit comprises a housing, a stator, a rotor, a planetary gear set, and an interface system. The rotor comprises a rotor shaft rotatable around a rotation axis and a sun gear coupled to said rotor shaft. The planetary gear set comprises a ring gear fixed to said housing, a plurality of planet gears in meshing engagement between the sun gear and the ring gear, and a planet...