US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on July 15 for "Electrical wheel module for acceleration and braking of a heavy-duty vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,377, issued on July 15, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Electrical wheel module for acceleration and braking of a heavy-duty vehicle" was invented by Hamid Yhr (Grabo, Sweden), Leo Laine (Harryda, Sweden), Ulf Stenbratt (Vallda, Sweden) and Mats Rydstrom (Billdal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel module arranged to generate torque to accelerate and to decelerate a heavy-duty vehicle. The wheel module comprises at least one electric machine arranged for regenerative braking, an eddy current braking device, and an electronic control unit, ECU. The wheel module further comprises a communications por...