ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,230, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Electric drive for a vehicle" was invented by Matthias Reisch (Ravensburg, Germany) and Jurgen Wafzig (Bermatingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive for a vehicle and a vehicle is having at least one electric machine having a rotor shaft and a planetary transmission for dividing the torque introduced via the rotor shaft to a first output shaft and a second output shaft, wherein for decoupling the rotor shaft at least one switching element is provided relative to the torque transmission between the rotor shaft and an elem...