US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on July 14 for "Drive unit for a vehicle, and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,189, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Drive unit for a vehicle, and vehicle" was invented by Rayk Gersten (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Stefan Renner (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Karlheinz Hoher (Markdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit includes two coaxially aligned electric machines. Each electric machine includes a rotor and stator. Each stator has a stator core lamination packet on which stator coils are arranged. The ends of the stators form end-face coil ends. One coil end forms a switching side for connecting electric current and the other coil end f...