US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on May 27 for "Planetary pinion input electric drive unit" (Texas, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,153, issued on May 27, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Planetary pinion input electric drive unit" was invented by Jeffrey M. David (Cedar Park, Texas) and William F. Waltz (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an electric drive unit. The electric drive system includes, in one example, a set of electric machines each of which are rotationally coupled to a pinion device in a set of pinion devices and a planetary assembly. The electric drive system further includes an inverter assembly electrically coupled to the set of electric machines in parallel. The planetary ass...