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US 5,691,588 AGranted
Drive arrangement for a hybird vehicle
AssigneeFichtel & Sachs AG
InventorsDieter Lutz, Dieter Bauch-Panetzky, Reinhard Feldhaus, Wolfgang Thieler
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Abstract
A drive arrangement for a hybrid vehicle with an electric motor, which has a rotor with a hub body and a stator, and with two engagable and disengagable dry-disk clutches. Each of the dry-disk clutches has a first functional component as well as a second functional component. The second functional component is frictionally connectable to the first functional component in order to provide a torque transmitting connection.
Claims13
A drive arrangement for a hybrid vehicle comprising:
- an electric motor including
- an external rotor having a cylindrically shaped hub body and a plurality of permanent magnets;
- a rotor bearing;
- and
- a stator;
- an internal combustion engine including a casing and a crank shaft;
- a drive train including a casing and a gear input shaft;
- and
- first and second actuatable clutches positioned on opposing axial faces of said hub body, each clutch having first and second functional components, said first functional component of said first clutch being non-rotatably connected to said crank shaft, said first functional component of said second clutch being non-rotatably connected to said gear input shaft, said second functional component of both said first and second clutches being non-rotatably connected to said hub body of said external rotor, and wherein said rotor bearing is disposed in a position selected from the group consisting of (a) between said first and second clutches (b) on said casing of said internal combustion engine and (c) on said casing of said drive train.
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