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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,890, issued on June 24, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Takatoshi Katayama (Kariya, Japan), Nozomu Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Takayoshi Hanai (Kariya, Japan), Teppei Yamashita (Kariya, Japan) and Hiroaki Sanji (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive device includes a first catch tank that stores oil splashed by a differential input gear in response to a rotor rotating in a first rotation direction and stores oil splashed by a first counter gear in response to the rotor rotating in a second rotation direction reverse to the first rotation direction and a second ...