Electrically propelled vehicle gearbox having a power take-off
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsNeeraj S. Shidore, Madhusudan Raghavan
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Abstract
A gearbox having a power take-off for an electrically propelled vehicle. The gearbox includes a housing; at least one planetary gear set; an input shaft in continuous connection with at least one sun gear; a first output shaft in continuous connection with a carrier; a second output shaft in continuous connection with a ring gear; and a plurality of brake clutches grounded to the housing and are selectively engageable in combinations to transfer a torque from the input shaft to at least one of the first output shaft and the second output shaft.
Claims6
A gearbox having a power take-off for an electrically propelled vehicle, comprising:
- a housing;
- a first planetary gear set having a first sun gear, a plurality of first planetary gears, a first carrier holding the plurality of first planetary gears, and a first ring gear, wherein the plurality of first planetary gears are coupled to the first sun gear and the first ring gear;
- a second planetary gear set having a second sun gear, a plurality of second planetary gears, a second carrier holding the plurality of second planetary gears, and a second ring gear, wherein the plurality of second planetary gears are coupled to the second sun gear and the second ring gear;
- an input shaft in continuous connection with the first sun gear and the second sun gear;
- a first output shaft in continuous connection with the first carrier;
- a second output shaft in continuous connection with the first ring gear;
- a first brake clutch grounded to the housing and selectively engageable with the first ring gear;
- a second brake clutch is grounded to the housing and selectively engageable with the second ring gear;
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- a third brake clutch is grounded to the housing and selectively engageable with the first carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.