US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on April 14 for "Electric drive unit that includes a fluid flow path" (Mexican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,541, issued on April 14, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric drive unit that includes a fluid flow path" was invented by Antonio Eduardo Mogro Zambrano (Puebla, Mexico), Diego Alberto Abreu (Mexico City) and Maximilian Podschwadt (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit for a vehicle includes an electric motor, an output shaft, and a housing. The electric motor includes a rotor shaft having an inner surface with a hollow accessible via an opening at an axial end of the rotor shaft and an outer surface opposite the inner surface. The output shaft extends into the ...