Patents by Inventor Gopinath MURUGAN

Gopinath MURUGAN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11865923
    Abstract: A drive device for an electric truck provided with double-tires, the drive device including drive units provided to each of the double-tires on left and right sides of the electric truck, each of the drive units including a drive unit housing integrally accommodating a motor that generates drive power, a reducer that reduces a rotation speed of the motor, and a final gear that is connected to the reducer and transfers the drive power of the motor to a drive shaft of the double-tire. The drive device further including suspension parts one integrally integrated with above the final gear in the drive unit housing of each of the drive units and steering gear parts one integrally integrated with above each of the suspension parts and being configured to be steerable the double-tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Daimler Truck AG
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Premkumar, Aydogan Cakmaz, Pradeep Kumar Thimmaiyan, Manish Saxena, Karthikeyan Suryanarayanan, Gopinath Murugan
  • Publication number: 20230001779
    Abstract: A drive device for an electric truck includes drive unit housings provided to each of drive wheels on left and right sides of the electric truck, each of the drive unit housings integrally accommodating a motor that generates drive power, a reducer that reduces a rotation speed of the motor, and a final gear that is connected to the reducer and transfers the drive power of the motor to the drive wheel. The drive device further includes suspension parts one provided over the final gear in each of the drive unit housings, steering gear parts one being provided over each of the suspension parts, pairs of hinge parts, and pairs of body-connecting parts, one of the pairs connecting each of the steering gear parts to a vehicle body of the electric truck through each of the pairs of hinge parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Karthikeyan PREMKUMAR, Aydogan CAKMAZ, Pradeep Kumar THIMMAIYAN, Manish SAXENA, Karthikeyan SURYANARAYANAN, Gopinath MURUGAN
  • Publication number: 20220410693
    Abstract: A drive device for an electric truck provided with double-tires, the drive device including drive units provided to each of the double-tires on left and right sides of the electric truck, each of the drive units including a drive unit housing integrally accommodating a motor that generates drive power, a reducer that reduces a rotation speed of the motor, and a final gear that is connected to the reducer and transfers the drive power of the motor to a drive shaft of the double-tire. The drive device further including suspension parts one integrally integrated with above the final gear in the drive unit housing of each of the drive units and steering gear parts one integrally integrated with above each of the suspension parts and being configured to be steerable the double-tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Karthikeyan PREMKUMAR, Aydogan CAKMAZ, Pradeep Kumar THIMMAIYAN, Manish SAXENA, Karthikeyan SURYANARAYANAN, Gopinath MURUGAN
  • Publication number: 20220410692
    Abstract: An electric truck includes drive units being provided to each of driving wheels on left and right sides of the electric truck, each of the drive units transmitting a driving force of a motor to each of the driving wheels, a body frame casing including a pair of mounting frame bodies extending in a vehicle width direction of the electric truck and being arranged apart in a vehicle front-rear direction and a pair of cross members connecting the pair of mounting frame bodies, and body-connecting parts connecting each of a vehicle front side and a vehicle rear side of each of the drive units arranged in a frame of the body frame casing to each of the mounting frame bodies. The pair of drive units are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in the vehicle width direction inside the frame of the body frame casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Karthikeyan PREMKUMAR, Aydogan CAKMAZ, Pradeep Kumar THIMMAIYAN, Manish SAXENA, Karthikeyan SURYANARAYANAN, Gopinath MURUGAN