US Patent Issued to AISIN on Feb. 3 for "Drive device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,747, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Drive device for vehicle" was invented by Shoichi Yamasaki (Kariya, Japan), Takeshi Torii (Kariya, Japan), Chihiro Onishi (Kariya, Japan), Soichiro Hattori (Kariya, Japan) and Takafumi Komori (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second gear meshes with a first gear and is connected to an output member so as to rotate integrally with each other. A rotor, a planetary gear mechanism, and the first gear are disposed on a first axis in a described order from an axial first side toward an axial second side. A connecting member, a differential gear mechanism, and...