# US 10,864,814 B2 · Hybrid drive train for a hybrid-drive motor vehicle > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,864,814 B2 - Document ID: US10864814B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/344,958 - Filed: 2017-10-24 - Published: 2019-09-05 - Granted: 2020-12-15 - Earliest claimed: 2016-10-26 - Assignees: Audi AG - Applicants: Audi AG - Inventors: Steffen Hummel - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10864814B2 ## CPC - B60K 6/48: Parallel type - B60K 6/36: characterised by the transmission gearings - B60K 6/547: the transmission being a stepped gearing - F16H 3/093: with two or more countershafts - B60K 2006/4816: {Electric machine connected or connectable to gearbox internal shaft} - B60K 2006/4833: {Step up or reduction gearing driving generator, e.g. to operate generator in most efficient speed range} - B60K 2006/4841: {the gear provides shifting between multiple ratios} - B60Y 2200/92: Hybrid vehicles - F16H 2003/0826: {wherein at least one gear on the input shaft, or on a countershaft is used for two different forward gear ratios} - F16H 2003/0933: {with coaxial countershafts} - F16H 2200/0008: specially adapted for front-wheel-driven vehicles - F16H 2200/0069: the gear ratios comprising ten forward speeds - Y02T 10/62: Hybrid vehicles - B60K: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES - F16H: GEARING - B60Y: INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO ASPECTS CROSS-CUTTING VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A hybrid drivetrain for a hybrid-drive vehicle, having a transmission, which can be shifted by shifting elements into different transmission steps, and which is connectable with respect to drive via an internal combustion engine shaft to an internal combustion engine, via an electric machine shaft to an electric machine, and via an output shaft to at least one vehicle axis. The internal combustion engine shaft and a pinion shaft, which can be connected with respect to drive to the output shaft, are connectable via spur gearwheel sets, which can be shifted by means of shifting elements and which each form gear planes, of which at least one hybrid gear plane is additionally connectable to the electric machine shaft. A further gear plane, which is free of attachments with respect to the electric machine shaft, directly adjoins the hybrid gear plane. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A hybrid drivetrain for a hybrid-drive vehicle, comprising: a transmission, which can be shifted by shifting elements into different transmission steps and which is connectable via an internal combustion engine shaft to an internal combustion engine, via an electric machine shaft to an electric machine, and via an output shaft to at least one vehicle axle, wherein the internal combustion engine shaft and a pinion shaft, which can be connected with respect to drive to the output shaft, are connectable via spur gearwheel sets, which can be shifted by shifting elements and which each form gear planes, of which at least one hybrid gear plane is additionally connectable to the electric machine shaft, wherein a further gear plane, which is free of attachments with respect to the electric machine shaft, directly adjoins the hybrid gear plane, wherein the hybrid gear plane and the further gear plane are components of a partial transmission having shifting elements, by which the partial transmission can be decoupled from the drivetrain during the transmission mode, wherein the hybrid gear plane includes a floating pinion-side gearwheel arranged on the pinion shaft, a drive-side gearwheel arranged on the internal combustion engine shaft, and an electric-machine-side gearwheel, and the electric-machine-side gearwheel is designed as a floating gearwheel and can be decoupled from the electric machine shaft or coupled thereto by means of the shifting element, wherein the further gear plane includes a pinion-side floating gearwheel, which is rotationally mounted on the pinion shaft and can be coupled by one of the shifting elements to the pinion shaft, and a first shifting element arranged on the pinion shaft can be shifted on both sides and is arranged in an axial direction between the pinion-side floating gearwheels, which are rotationally mounted on the pinion shaft, of the hybrid gear plane and the further gear plane, wherein the first shifting element is decoupled in a neutral position from the hybrid gear plane and the further gear plane and the first shifting element either couples the pinion-side floating gearwheel of the further gear plane to the pinion shaft in a first shifting position or couples the pinion-side floating gearwheel of the hybrid gear plane to the pinion shaft in a second shifting position wherein in the partial transmission, the further gear plane includes a drive-side floating gearwheel rotationally mounted on the internal combustion engine shaft, which can be coupled by a second shifting element to the internal combustion engine shaft, which are rotationally mounted on the internal combustion engine shaft, of the hybrid gear plane and the further gear plane are arranged in a rotationally-fixed manner on a pinion-side hollow shaft, which is coaxially rotationally mounted on the internal combustion engine shaft and can be coupled via precisely one shifting element to the internal combustion engine shaft. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission has precisely two hybrid gear planes. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 2, wherein the two hybrid gear planes are each a component of a first and a second partial transmission, including the shifting element arranged on the internal combustion engine shaft can be shifted on both sides and is arranged in the axial direction between drive-side hollow shafts of the two partial transmissions, wherein the shifting element is decoupled in a neutral position from the drive side hollow shafts of the two partial transmissions and the shifting element either couples a drive-side hollow shaft of a first partial transmission to the internal combustion engine shaft in a first shifting position or couples a drive-side hollow shaft of a second partial transmission to the internal combustion engine shaft in a second shifting position. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electric machine shaft is free of fixed gearwheels, which are arranged thereon in a rotationally-fixed manner, of the spur gearwheel sets forming the gear planes. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pinion shaft is connected via a spur gear step to the output shaft, and all gear planes are arranged in the axial direction between the spur gear step and the electric machine. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 1, wherein the floating pinion-side gearwheel of the hybrid gear plane can be coupled by one of the shifting elements to the pinion shaft, and/or the drive-side gearwheel, which is arranged on the internal combustion shaft, of the hybrid gear plane is a floating gearwheel, which can be coupled by another shifting element to the internal combustion engine shaft. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electric machine is attached on a pinion side, and for a pinion-side attachment of the electric machine, the electric-machine-side gearwheel of the hybrid gear plane meshes with the pinion-side floating gearwheel rotationally mounted on the pinion shaft. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electric machine is attached on a drive side, and for a drive-side attachment of the electric machine, the electric-machine-side gearwheel of the hybrid gear plane meshes with the drive-side floating gearwheel rotationally mounted on the internal combustion engine shaft. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 1, wherein one electric-machine-side gearwheel of the hybrid gear plane is attached on a pinion side, and an other electric-machine-side gearwheel of the other hybrid gear plane is attached on a drive side. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electric machine shaft is connected via a first shifting element to a first hybrid gear plane and is connected using a second shifting element to a second hybrid gear plane. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 10, wherein, an electric-machine-side gearwheel of the first hybrid gear plane is arranged in a rotationally-fixed manner, on a hollow shaft coaxial to the electric machine shaft, and the hollow shaft is connectable via the first shifting element, to the electric machine shaft, and an electric-machine-side gearwheel of a second hybrid gear plane is arranged in a rotationally-fixed manner on a solid shaft guided coaxially through the hollow shaft, and the solid shaft is connectable via the second shifting element. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first shifting element is a freewheel clutch, and the gearwheel of the first hybrid gear plane is connectable via the freewheel clutch to the hollow shaft attached in a rotationally-fixed manner to the electric machine shaft, and the freewheel clutch is associated with a shifting element, wherein another shifting element permits a torque transmission from the electric machine shaft to the hollow shaft and suppresses it in the opposite direction in a first shifting position, and permits the torque transmission in both directions in a second shifting position. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The drivetrain as claimed in claim 12, wherein the second shifting element is a clutch, using which the solid shaft is connectable to the electric machine shaft, wherein an outer plate carrier of the clutch is fixedly attached to both the electric machine shaft and also the hollow shaft.