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US 9,701,187 B2Granted
Drive device for a vehicle and vehicle comprising the drive device
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsTomas Smetana, Philip Wurzberger
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Abstract
A drive device which can use a hybrid drive as well as a torque distribution using the same electric motor and which can also have a simple structure. The drive device (1) can be coupled or is coupled to a first and a second motor (6, 7), the second motor (7) can be used in accordance with the shift state of a shifting device (13) for a drive or for an active torque distribution.
Claims8
A drive device for a vehicle, comprising:
- a first and a second output shaft;
- a first interface for coupling a first engine;
- a differential device for distributing the drive torque from the first interface to the first and second output shaft, the differential device including an input and two outputs and the input of the differential device being coupled to the first interface and the two outputs of the differential device being coupled to the first and the second output shafts;
- a second interface for transferring the drive torque of a second engine;
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- an intermediate gear, the intermediate gear being situated between the second interface and the differential device;
- the intermediate gear including a first and a second output, the first output being rotatably fixedly coupled to the input of the differential device and the second output being rotatably fixedly coupled to one of the first and second output shafts;
- a shifter, the shifter being designed to shift the intermediate gear into at least two different shifting states;
- in a first shifting state of the shifter, the drive torque being guided from the second interface or from the second engine to the differential device;
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- in a second shifting state, the drive torque from the second interface or from the second engine being used for torque distribution;
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- the intermediate gear including two inputs, the shifter being designed to guide the drive torque from the second interface or from the second engine into the intermediate gear via a first input of the two inputs in the first shifting state and via a second input of the two inputs in the second shifting state,
- wherein the intermediate gear includes a drive planetary gear set and a distribution planetary gear set, sun gears of the drive planetary gear set and of the distribution planetary gear set being coupled to one another and,
- wherein the drive planetary gear set includes an annulus gear fastened to the housing or stationary, a planetary carrier, and a set of planet wheels rotatably mounted on the planetary carrier and meshing with the sun gear of the drive planetary gear set and with the annulus gear of the drive planetary gear set, the planetary carrier forming the first output, and a first input gear, the first input gear being rotatably fixedly coupled to the sun gears.
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