ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,880, issued on June 24, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Shinji Kondo (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive device includes a rotary electric machine including a stator and a rotor, a power transmission mechanism drivingly connected to the rotor, a differential device including a differential ring gear, a differential case, and a differential mechanism, and a case. The case includes a partition wall disposed between the rotary electric machine and the differential device. The partition wall has an opening at a portion where a distance between a stator core and ...