ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,185, issued on June 10, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Power train for a motor vehicle" was invented by Hagen Doepfert (Lindau, Germany), Christoph Gradl (Markdorf, Germany) and Matthias Reisch (Ravensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power train (1) for a motor vehicle (100) includes an electric machine (2) and a transmission (3) with at least one first planetary gear set (P1) that includes gear set elements with a sun gear (P1.1), a planet carrier (P1.2) and a ring gear (P1.3). The electric machine (2) includes a rotor (4), which transmits drive power via a rotor shaft (5) at least i...