US Patent Issued to AISIN on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,039, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Kazunori Nakajima (Kariya, Japan), Wataru Washino (Kariya, Japan), Hideki Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan), Nozomu Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Takayoshi Hanai (Kariya, Japan) and Hiroaki Sanji (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assembly includes a parking gear in a rotary member included in the first power transmission that transmits power between a rotary electric machine and wheels and movable with the wheels, an engagement member selectively engageable with the parking gear, and a second power transmission that...