ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,305, issued on March 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Left-right wheel driving device" was invented by Naoki Takahashi (Tokyo), Kiminobu Terao (Tokyo) and Motoharu Chiba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a left-right wheel driving device (10) including two motors (1, 2) that drive left and right wheels and a gear mechanism (3) that amplifies a torque difference between the two motors (1, 2) and transmits the amplified torques to the left and right wheels, respective, rotating shafts (1A, 2A) of the two motors (1, 2) are coaxially disposed. The left-right wheel driving device (10) further includes moto...