Drive unit for a two-wheeled motor-driven vehicle and vehicle including said unit
AssigneeCycles Peugeot
InventorBernard Lacroix
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Abstract
The drive unit comprises mainly a motor-gearing down relay assembly (M, R) whose single case (1, 2) carries suspension arms (3, 4) which rearwardly extend the assembly and support the driving wheel of the vehicle and a suspension system such as springs (19).
Claims8
A drive out for a two-wheeled motor-driven vehicle comprising an assembly comprising a motor and a gearing down relay, suspension arms connected to the motor and adapted to receive, in the vicinity of free ends of the arms, a driving wheel of the vehicle, support means for a suspended part of the vehicle, the motor having a crankshaft, the relay having an output shaft and an input shaft, the input shaft being drivingly connected to the crankshaft of the motor and being spaced further away from the crankshaft than the output shaft of the relay, a pedal crank gear having a shaft which is located in said assembly between the motor and the relay and a unidirectional coupling drivingly coupling the crank gear shaft to the output shaft.
A two-wheeled motor-driven vehicle comprising a drive unit, said unit comprising an assembly comprising a motor and a gearing down relay, suspension arms connected to the motor and receiving, in the vicinity of free ends of the arms, a driving wheel of the vehicle, support means for a suspended part of the vehicle, the motor having a crankshaft, the relay having an output shaft and an input shaft, the input shaft being drivingly connected to the crankshaft of the motor and being spaced further away from the crankshaft than the output shaft of the relay, a pedal crank gear having a shaft which is located in said assembly between the motor and the relay and a unidirectional coupling drivingly coupling the crank gear shaft to the output shaft, said unit being mounted on the vehicle to pivot about a transverse axis under the suspended part of the vehicle and being connected, at the rear part thereof, to the support means for said suspended part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.