US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,116, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Electric vehicle" was invented by Takeshi Kuwahara (Toyota, Japan), Shinichiro Suenaga (Nagoya, Japan) and Shigeki Yamazaki (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle includes: a side member; and a mechanical-electrical integrated unit attached to the side member through a fastener. The mechanical-electrical integrated unit is constituted by a drive apparatus and an electric-power control apparatus that are housed in a same casing. The casing has an upper space and a lower space that are vertically separated within the casing. The el...