ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,551, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Driving apparatus" was invented by Sho Ito (Toyota, Japan), Seitaro Nobuyasu (Toyota, Japan), Hiroyuki Tateno (Toyota, Japan) and Yuki Yamada (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving apparatus of the present disclosure includes an electric motor including a stator and a rotor, a case accommodating the electric motor and mounted on a vehicle so as to partially overlap a side member as viewed from a vehicle width direction, a drive shaft connected to a wheel, a plurality of radial ribs respectively projecting in th...