ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,847, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan) and MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Yuki Yanagihara (Kariya, Japan), Naoki Takahashi (Tokyo), Kiminobu Terao (Tokyo), Takuya Ogasawara (Okazaki, Japan) and Yosuke Morimoto (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first rotating electric machine and a second rotating electric machine are spaced apart from each other in an axial direction. An inverter unit is disposed between the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine in the axial direction in such a manner as to overlap the first ro...