US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on Dec. 30 for "Electric axle" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,143, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Electric axle" was invented by William F. Waltz (Toledo, Ohio) and Darren J. Ziskovsky (Bowling Green, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an electric axle. The electric axle system includes, in one example, an electric machine and a multi-speed transmission that is rotationally coupled to the electric machine and rotationally coupled to two output shafts. The transmission includes a differential rotationally coupled and positioned coaxial to a mode planetary gear set. In the electric axle system, the mod...