An endothermic/electric hybrid propulsion system for a vehicle
AssigneeEldor Corporation S.P.A.
InventorsPasquale FORTE, Luca ZAI
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Abstract
An endothermic/electric hybrid propulsion system for a vehicle comprises a first propulsion unit, of the electrical type, provided with at least a first electric machine (EM1) coupled to a transmission shaft, a second propulsion unit, of the hybrid type, provided with an output shaft and comprising at least one internal combustion engine (ICE) and at least one second electric machine (EM2) which can be selectively coupled together to provide torque to the output shaft in an independent or combined manner and a coupling member operatively interposed between the output shaft of the second propulsion unit and the transmission shaft of the first propulsion unit.
Claims17
An endothermic/electric hybrid propulsion system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a first propulsion unit, of the electrical type, provided with at least a first electric machine (EM1) coupled to a transmission shaft, in which said transmission shaft is coupled to a differential (AD) of said vehicle (V);
- a second propulsion unit, of the hybrid type, provided with an output shaft and comprising at least one internal combustion engine (ICE) and at least a second electric machine (EM2) which can be selectively coupled together to provide torque to said output shaft in an independent or combined manner;
- a coupling member operatively interposed between the output shaft of the second propulsion unit and the transmission shaft of the first propulsion unit, wherein said coupling member can be selectively switched between an engagement condition in which it couples said first and said second propulsion unit, and a disengagement condition, in which it disengages the second propulsion unit from the first propulsion unit.
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