ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,933, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Mitsuhiro Nishimura (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiro Fujiwara (Kariya, Japan) and Takahiro Fujiwara (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is configured to perform torque response slip control for bringing an engagement device into a slip engaged state so that transfer torque of the engagement device has a magnitude corresponding to required torque, shift control for shifting the shift speed of an automatic transmission, and transfer torque limit control for limiting the transfer torque of the engagement device ...