US Patent Issued to AISIN on March 25 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,030, issued on March 25, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Tsubasa Deguchi (Kariya, Japan), Tomoko Okimoto (Kariya, Japan), Mitsuhiko Kato (Kariya, Japan), Takayuki Doi (Kariya, Japan), Tatsuya Ito (Kariya, Japan), Ryota Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Chisami Matsumoto (Kariya, Japan) and Hideharu Kusunoki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first rotating element is a first sun gear that rotates with a rotor. A third rotating element is a first ring gear connected to a case. A fourth rotating element is a second ring gear that rotates with an input element. A second rotating...