ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,275, issued on May 6, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Ryohei Inoue (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive device including a case, a rotary electric machine provided in the case and including power lines 1U, 1V, and 1W electrically connected to a power supply via a power converter (inverter IV), bus bars 7U, 7V, and 7W extending inside the case and joined to the power lines, a hydraulic pump (electric hydraulic pump 72), and an oil passage including ejection holes through which oil discharged from the hydraulic pump is ejected toward at least one of the power ...