US 11,299,028 B2Granted

Drive device for a motor vehicle, corresponding motor vehicle, and method for operating a drive device

AssigneeAudi AG

InventorsAlfred Rehr, Thierry Caramigeas

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Abstract

A drive device for a motor vehicle, having a first drive unit, a second drive unit, and a first output shaft which can be coupled or is coupled to a first wheel drive shaft of the motor vehicle, and/or a second output shaft which can be coupled or is coupled to a second wheel drive shaft of the motor vehicle, wherein the first drive unit and the second drive unit can be coupled jointly to the first output shaft and/or the second output shaft. It is provided here that the second drive unit can be coupled via a separating clutch to the first drive unit, a transmission output shaft of a transmission which is coupled to the first drive unit.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A drive device for a motor vehicle comprising:

a first drive unit and a second drive unit as well as a first output shaft rigidly connected to a first wheel drive shaft and a second output shaft rigidly connected to a second wheel drive shaft,
wherein the first and second drive units are coupleable to at least one of the first and second output shafts,
wherein the first drive unit is arranged on an input side of a gear-change transmission,
wherein a transmission output shaft of the gear-change transmission is coupled to a first coupling element upstream of the first coupling element, and a transmission shaft is coupled to the first coupling element downstream of the first coupling element,
wherein the second drive unit is coupled via at least a separating clutch to the transmission output shaft,
wherein the first output shaft is coupled to the transmission output shaft, and
wherein the transmission shaft is coupled via a second differential gear to the second output shaft.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/346,914Filed 30 Oct 2017
Priority: DE 10 2016 221 880.88 Nov 2016
Published: US 2019/0255934 A122 Aug 2019
Granted: 12 Apr 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

B60K 6/40
Characterised by apparatus, components or means specially adapted for HEVs: characterised by the assembly or relative disposition of components
B60K 1/02
Arrangement or mounting of electrical propulsion units: comprising more than one electric motor
B60K 6/36
Characterised by apparatus, components or means specially adapted for HEVs: characterised by the transmission gearings
B60K 6/387
Characterised by the driveline clutches: actuated clutches, i.e. clutches engaged or disengaged by electric, hydraulic or mechanical actuating means

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US 2019/0255934 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Aug 2019
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