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US 2023/0347728 A1Published application
Hybrid power unit and hybrid vehicle
AssigneeTvs Motor Company Limited
InventorsBalasubramanian Thiruvallur Loganathan, Lakshmi Narasimhan Varadha Iyengar
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: an engine assembly including a cylinder head, an engine output shaft, and a crankshaft; and an electric motor assembly transversely disposed above a crankcase of the engine assembly. The electric motor assembly includes an electric motor and an electromagnetic clutch mounted coaxially on the electric motor.
Claims20
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A vehicle, comprising:
- an engine assembly including a cylinder head, an engine output shaft, and a crankshaft;
- and
- an electric motor assembly transversely disposed above a crankcase of the engine assembly;
- wherein the electric motor assembly includes an electric motor and an electromagnetic clutch mounted coaxially on the electric motor.
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A hybrid power unit for a vehicle, where the hybrid power unit comprising:
- an engine assembly having a camshaft axis (A);
- an electric motor assembly having an electric motor assembly axis (B);
- a drive shaft having a drive shaft axis (C);
- the engine assembly and the electric motor assembly disposed in a region formed with respect to a line CD;
- and
- the camshaft axis (A), the electric motor assembly axis (B), and the drive shaft axis (C) disposed along 3 vertices of a triangle where a line joining the camshaft axis (A) and the drive shaft axis (C) substantially passes close to a crankshaft axis (C′) of the engine assembly,
- wherein the line CD is defined by the drive shaft axis (C) and a locus point (D) which is disposed on an opposite side of the crankshaft axis C′ with respect to a line AB defined by the camshaft axis (A) and the electric motor assembly axis (B).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.