Nissan Motor Company Limited

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Jtekt Corporation

Naoaki Oikawa

Tomohiro Okada

Yuji Takatsuka

Ken Nakayama

Yuuichi Fukuyama

Kazuhiko Soeda

Takahiro Saruwatari

Tatsuhiko Ikeda

Masayuki Tanaka

Takahiro Kuroiwa

Akinori Inada

A power transmission device for a vehicle is comprised of a motor including a rotor shaft and a stator having an electromagnetic coil; an inverter configured to generate an alternating current, the inverter being connected with the coil to controllably rotate the rotor shaft relative to the stator; a gear set including an input shaft coupled with and rotated by the rotor shaft, an output shaft and gears so meshed as to transmit torque of the input shaft to the output shaft; and a grounding path electrically connecting a part of the gear set with a body of the vehicle, the part being so disposed as to have the input shaft electrically interposed between the part and the rotor shaft.

Gear system for electric vehicle

In an electric power steering apparatus including a capacitor for smoothing out the voltage of a battery and a relay including a relay contact disposed at a place upstream of the capacitor, a path is provided for directly conducting a terminal voltage of the capacitor from a downstream side of the relay contact to a system power supply that generates a source voltage for a control system including a controller and the like, so that the system power supply and the control system that is supplied therefrom with electric power for control purpose are utilized as a discharge circuit. Thus is obtained a simplified configuration of circuit responsible for discharging the capacitor.

Electric power steering apparatus

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Atsugi, Japan

Naoaki Oikawa