ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,999, issued on July 29, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).
"Wheel driving method and system" was invented by Tim Wright (Maumee, Ohio), Brian Sitterly (Norwalk, Ohio), Thomas L. Nahrwold (Napolean, Ohio) and Marcus Schmidt (Maumee, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for operating a driveline that includes a cardan joint are described. In one example, electric machine torque is adjusted in response to driver demand torque and a torque to compensate for cardan joint rotation. The electric machine torque adjustments operate to cancel driveline torque variation that may be induced via t...