US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "Drive unit controlling torque in drive system mounted on vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,326, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Drive unit controlling torque in drive system mounted on vehicle" was invented by Shinjiroh Kuze (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit mounted on a vehicle includes: a motor; a motor-side shaft having a first spline on an outer peripheral surface thereof and rotated by torque from the motor; a gear-side shaft having a second spline on the outer peripheral surface thereof and disposed coaxially with the motor-side shaft; and a coupling sleeve disposed from the motor-side shaft to the gear-side shaft and having a third spline on the inner...