US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,466, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electric vehicle" was invented by Kazunori Sakai (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle in which a gear shaft provided with a helical gear is held by a first casing member through a first bearing. The gear shaft has a splined outer circumferential surface fitted in a splined inner circumferential surface of a rotor shaft that is held by a second casing member through a second bearing and is held by a third casing member through a third bearing. The gear shaft includes a large diameter portion which has a diameter larger than a dia...