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US 2024/0253441 A1Published application
Electric drive unit with removable through shaft
AssigneeDana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC
InventorsGustav JOHNSON, Jordan M. HOUSER, Darren J. ZISKOVSKY
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Abstract
A system for an electric drive unit. The electric drive unit includes, in one example, a first shaft with a through shaft opening and a second shaft axially aligned with the first shaft. The electric drive unit further includes a through shaft that axially extends through the through shaft opening and removably attaches to the first shaft and the second shaft.
Claims20
An electric drive unit comprising:
- a first shaft with a through shaft opening;
- a second shaft axially aligned with the first shaft;
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- a through shaft that axially extends through the through shaft opening and removably attaches to the first shaft and the second shaft.
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An electric axle comprising:
- a traction motor with a rotor shaft that includes a through shaft opening;
- a gearbox with an input shaft that has a gear coupled thereto;
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- a through shaft that axially extends through the through shaft opening and removably attaches to the rotor shaft and the input shaft.
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A traction motor comprising:
- a stator;
- a rotor at least partially circumferentially surrounded by the stator and including a rotor shaft with a through shaft opening;
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- a removable through shaft splined to the through shaft opening and including a distal section that is configured to spline to a splined recess in an input shaft of a gearbox.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.