US Patent Issued to AISIN on June 24 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,884, issued on June 24, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Shintaro Matsuda (Kariya, Japan), Tsubasa Deguchi (Kariya, Japan), Mitsuhiko Kato (Kariya, Japan), Kazuya Kawamura (Kariya, Japan), Yoshikazu Nakai (Kariya, Japan) and Nozomi Suzuki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine, a transmission, and a differential gear device are disposed coaxially. The transmission includes a first helical gear and a second helical gear that meshes with the first helical gear. A case includes a first case member including a stator support portion that supports a stator...