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US 5,251,721 AGranted
Semi-hybrid electric automobile
AssigneeRichard Ortenheim
InventorBjorn A. Ortenheim
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Abstract
A semi-hybrid electric automobile includes a compartment, adapted to receive an easily removable fuel propulsion unit therein, and a transmission, adapted to establish a torque-transmitting connection between an output shaft of a fuel propulsion unit, placed in a predetermined position in the compartment, and a drive axle of the automobile.
Claims14
An automobile comprising:
- a compartment, adapted to receive an easily removable fuel propulsion unit therein in a predetermined accurate position,
- a transmission, adapted to establish a torque-transmitting connection between an output shaft of the fuel propulsion unit, when it is placed in said predetermined accurate position in said compartment, and a drive axle of the automobile, propulsion of said automobile being selectively provided by only one of electric power from an electric battery power source and mechanical power from a fuel propulsion unit, and
- guide means for guiding the fuel propulsion unit into said predetermined accurate position when propulsion of said automobile is to be provided by mechanical power.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.