US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on Oct. 7 for "Hybrid power unit, hybrid straddle vehicle, and case of hybrid power unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,787, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Hybrid power unit, hybrid straddle vehicle, and case of hybrid power unit" was invented by Masaki Nishiyabu (Akashi, Japan), Yuji Hida (Akashi, Japan) and Tetsuji Yamamoto (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid power unit includes: an internal combustion engine; a power transmitting shaft to which power from a crank shaft is transmitted and which is housed in a crank case; an electric motor including a motor driving shaft projecting from a motor housing toward a lateral side, the electric motor being located on an outer surface of the crank c...