US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 22 for "Drive device that can effectively cool two electric motors" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,498, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Drive device that can effectively cool two electric motors" was invented by Yusuke Suzuki (Nisshin, Japan), Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan) and Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device includes: a first electric motor that drives a left wheel of a vehicle; a second electric motor that drives a right wheel of the vehicle; a first oil pump that supplies oil to the first electric motor via a first oil supply passage; a second oil pump that supplies oil to the second electric motor via a second oil supply passage; a connecting...