Transmission device for a motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10962091-B2
Application number	US-201816641340-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 17, 2018
Priority date	Aug 25, 2017
Publication date	Mar 30, 2021
Grant date	Mar 30, 2021

Abstract

A transmission device for a motor vehicle, having an input shaft, which is operatively connectable to a drive device of the motor vehicle, and a first output shaft and a second output shaft, and including a spur gear differential transmission which is designed as a planetary transmission, by which the input shaft is coupled to the first output shaft and the second output shaft, An electric machine arranged coaxially to the input shaft can be coupled by a shifting device to the input shaft and/or an intermediate shaft coupled across the spur gear differential transmission to the first output shaft and the second output shaft. The electric machine is coupled across a transmission gearing to the shifting device. The transmission gearing has at least two planetary gear sets which are coupled to one another and either have identical stationary gear ratios or are within a determined stationary gear range.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A transmission device for a motor vehicle, comprising:
an input shaft, which is operatively connectable to a drive device of the motor vehicle,
a first output shaft,
a second output shaft, and
a spur gear differential transmission which is designed as a planetary transmission, by which the input shaft is coupled to the first output shaft and the second output shaft,
wherein an electric machine arranged coaxially to the input shaft can be coupled by a shifting device to the input shaft and/or an intermediate shaft coupled across the spur gear differential transmission to the first output shaft and the second output shaft,
wherein the electric machine is coupled across a transmission gearing to the shifting device,
wherein the transmission gearing has at least two planetary gear sets which are coupled to one another and which either have identical stationary gear ratios or are within a determined stationary gear range,
wherein the electric machine is coupled in a first shifting position of the shifting device to the input shaft and in a second shifting position of the shifting device to the intermediate shaft.

2. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the two planetary gear sets as viewed in the axial direction with respect to an axis of rotation of the input shaft are arranged on the same side of the electric machine or on opposite sides of the electric machine.

3. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein a sun gear of a first of the planetary gear sets is coupled to the electric machine.

4. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein a planet gear carrier or a ring gear of a first of the planetary gear sets is coupled to a sun gear of a second of the planetary gear sets.

5. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein a first input gear of the shifting device is coupled to a planet gear carrier or a ring gear of a first planetary gear set or to a sun gear of a second planetary gear set.

6. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein a second input gear of the shifting device is coupled to a planet gear carrier or a ring gear of a second planetary gear set.

7. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein a first output gear of the shifting device is coupled to the input shaft and/or a second output gear of the shifting device is coupled to the intermediate shaft.

8. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein a coupling element of the shifting device can be arranged in at least a first shifting position and a second shifting position,
wherein in the first shifting position the coupling element meshes with a first input gear and a first output gear and in the second shifting position the coupling element meshes with the first input gear and a second output gear.

9. The transmission device according to claim 8 , wherein the coupling element in a third shifting position meshes with a second input gear and the first output gear.

10. A transmission device for a motor vehicle, comprising:
an input shaft, which is operatively connectable to a drive device of the motor vehicle,
a first output shaft,
a second output shaft, and
a spur gear differential transmission which is designed as a planetary transmission, by which the input shaft is coupled to the first output shaft and the second output shaft,
wherein an electric machine arranged coaxially to the input shaft can be coupled by a shifting device to the input shaft and/or an intermediate shaft coupled across the spur gear differential transmission to the first output shaft and the second output shaft,
wherein the electric machine is coupled across a transmission gearing to the shifting device,
wherein the transmission gearing has at least two planetary gear sets which are coupled to one another and which either have identical stationary gear ratios or are within a determined stationary gear range,
wherein a coupling element of the shifting device can be arranged in at least a first shifting position, a second shifting position, and a third shifting position,
wherein in the first shifting position, the coupling element meshes with a first input gear and a first output gear, in the second shifting position, the coupling element meshes with the first input gear and a second output gear, and in the third shifting position, the coupling element meshes with the first input gear and the second output gear.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Trautmann Carsten
• Meixner Christian

Classifications

• Y02T10/62

  Hybrid vehicles · CPC title

• F16H3/724 Primary

  using externally powered electric machines · CPC title

• B60Y2400/804

  Torque vectoring arrangements · CPC title

• B60K2006/4841

  the gear provides shifting between multiple ratios · CPC title

• F16H2048/364

  using electric or hydraulic motors · CPC title