ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,969, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).
"Methods and systems for a gear box with multiple ratios" was invented by Gregory R. Andres (Blissfield, Mich.), Mitchell R. Lawson (Perrysburg, Ohio), Marcelo Nakandakari (Perrysburg, Ohio) and Andrew C. Shupe (Waterville, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for an electric drive axle of a vehicle are provided. In one example, an electric drive axle system includes a gear box including a plurality of gear ratios. The plurality of gear ratios includes a fixed center distance measured from a carrier to an axle on which a plurality of gear...