ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,661, issued on Feb. 3, 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, a multi-speed transmission that is rotationally coupled to the electric machine, rotationally coupled to two output shafts, and including a Ravigneaux gear set rotationally coupled and positioned coaxial to a differential. The electric axle system further includes a mode clutch conf...