ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,800, issued on June 17, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Electric drive comprising heat exchanger section between oil and a cooling fluid" was invented by Inaki Fernandez (Nuremberg, Germany) and Philipp Mattes (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive provides transmission oil cooling. An oil circuit supplies the transmission with oil. A cooling circuit cools a supply device and/or an electric motor with a coolant. A heat exchanger portion is coupled on one side to the cooling circuit and on the other side to the oil circuit. The supply device is arranged...