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US 2025/0178448 A1Published application
Pendulum power transmission drive wheel with mechanical recovery of part of the braking energy
OwnerManuel Lahuerta Romeoinventor
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Pendulum power transmission drive wheel with mechanical recovery of part of the braking energy, developed from a reducer (3) attached to the vehicle suspension. The drive wheel (1) is fixed to the slow shaft (4) of the reducer (3). On the fast shaft (5) on its stub axle, a bearing (7) is fixed from which a swing arm (6) hangs, at the end of which the engine (8) is fixed, which drives the fast shaft (5) by means of a belt transmission (11), chain or gears, forming a pendulum assembly (19). On the arm (6) brake calipers (14) are mounted which, when activated on the disc (13), keep the pendulum assembly (19) raised, by the effect of the engine brake (8), accumulating potential energy. To move the vehicle, the calipers (14) are deactivated and the engine (8) is started simultaneously, recovering part of the braking energy on its descent and facilitating the starting of the engine (8) and the vehicle.
Pendulum power transmission drive wheel with mechanical recovery of part of the braking energy, characterised in that it is developed from an epicyclic reducer, whose housing is fixed to the suspension of the vehicle to be moved, where on the side of the slow shaft of the reducer, the wheel is fixed with its parking brake, where on the side of the fast shaft, embedded in its stub axle a bearing is mounted, from which an swing arm hangs, at the end of which the engine is fixed, which drives the fast shaft by means of a belt transmission, chain or gearbox, forming a pendulum assembly, and where on the same arm brake calipers are mounted which, when activated, keep the pendulum assembly raised by the effect of the engine brake, recovering part of the braking energy in its descent that is added to that of the engine to start the vehicle.
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