US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Nov. 3 for "Drive motor layout for electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,353, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Drive motor layout for electric vehicle" was invented by Kensuke Osawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazunari Takata (Shizuoka, Japan), Atsushi Yasuda (Shizuoka, Japan), Masahiro Yoshida (Shizuoka, Japan), Kenta Higashiyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Kensuke Kamada (Shizuoka, Japan), Seiji Umekita (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yasuo Miyake (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes upper frames, lower frames, a front frame, a rear frame, a pair of rear wheels, a drive motor to drive the pair of rear wheels, a battery to supply electric power to the drive mot...