US Patent Issued to AISIN on Sept. 30 for "Vehicle drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,971, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Daiki Suyama (Kariya, Japan), Takuyo Maeda (Kariya, Japan), Shohei Tokoro (Kariya, Japan) and Kohei Sasai (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle speed is lower than a first threshold, a control device controls both a first drive unit and a second drive unit to output a requested driving force by setting an operation mode of the first drive unit to a first mode when the requested driving force is smaller than a second threshold and the charge level of a power storage device is equal to or higher than a third t...