Drive unit
Assigneefischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
InventorUlf-Lothar Bastian
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Abstract
A drive unit includes a wheel distribution gear mechanism for driving two output wheels as a function of the direction of rotation. An intermediate wheel, which meshes with a drive wheel of the wheel distribution gear mechanism, is movably guided on a circular path that is concentric with respect to an axis of rotation of the drive wheel, so as to reach a first driving position, meshing with a first output wheel, during rotation in a first direction of rotation, and a second driving position, meshing with a second output wheel, during rotation in an opposite second direction of rotation.
Claims8
A drive unit comprising a wheel distribution gear mechanism comprising a drive wheel, a first intermediate wheel, a first output wheel, which can be rotationally driven by the drive wheel via the first intermediate wheel, a first guide for the first intermediate wheel, which movably guides the first intermediate wheel on a circular path that is concentric with respect to an axis of rotation of the drive wheel so that, in a first driving position of the first intermediate wheel, the first output wheel an be rotationally driven by the drive wheel via the first intermediate wheel, wherein the first guide for the first intermediate wheel is self-locking free so that torque, which is transmitted by the drive wheel to the first intermediate wheel during rotational driving, moves the first intermediate wheel into the first driving position when driven in a first direction of rotation.
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