ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,100, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BORGWARNER SWEDEN AB (Sweden).
"Drive axle for a vehicle" was invented by R. Keith Martin (Ocala, Fla.), Calahan Campton (Royal Oak, Mich.), Robert Peacey (Evesham, Great Britain) and Michael Bryant (Brackley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive axle with a bevel gear differential having a differential cage as an input and two drive shafts as differential outputs. The differential cage is driven by a planet carrier of a planetary gear set, the planet carrier providing a plurality of planet shafts, each forming a stiff unit with two planet wheels stepped in diameter. The planet ...