US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on May 26 for "Electric axle parking mechanism with oil dam for stable oil level during uphill/downhill driving" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,079, issued on May 26, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric axle parking mechanism with oil dam for stable oil level during uphill/downhill driving" was invented by Kyle Nelson (Delaware, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A park mechanism in an electric drive unit may relocate an oil passage within an end housing and add a sensor dam. The sensor dam may separate a park mechanism cavity and a sensor cavity. The sensor dam may trap oil in the park mechanism cavity and prevent the sensor cavity from filling with the oil. The oil may trap the air above the oil in the sensor cavity, pre...