US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Electric drive unit with a secondary oil reservoir" (Mexican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,289, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric drive unit with a secondary oil reservoir" was invented by Andres Salgado (Puebla, Mexico), John Brevick (Newaygo, Mich.), Diego Alberto Abreu (Mexico City) and Antonio Eduardo Mogro Zambrano (Puebla, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive unit includes a motor that rotates a rotor shaft, a transmission assembly coupled with the rotor shaft, a differential assembly with a ring gear that interfaces with a gear of the transmission assembly, such that rotation of the rotor shaft drives rotation of the ring ge...