ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,795, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"In-vehicle-mounted structure" was invented by Kenichi Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle-mounted structure in which a drive unit is mounted on a vehicle equipped with an engine. The drive unit includes a drive motor and a transmission. The drive motor and the transmission are connected in series in a width direction of the vehicle. An exhaust pipe of the engine is extended to pass adjacent the transmission in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The transmission includes a coolant flow channel through which flow...