Powertrain for a motor vehicle, differential planetary gear system for a powertrain, and motor vehicle comprising a powertrain

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11255418-B2
Application number	US-201816606914-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2018
Priority date	Apr 26, 2017
Publication date	Feb 22, 2022
Grant date	Feb 22, 2022

Abstract

A powertrain for a motor vehicle, with a differential planetary gear system, which has at least one ring gear with ring gear toothing, at least one sun gear with sun gear toothing, planetary gears which engage with the ring gear toothing on one side and with the sun gear toothing on the other side, and a planetary gear carrier, on which the planetary gears are rotatably mounted. The ring gear toothing and the sun gear toothing have the same number of respective gear wheel teeth.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A powertrain for a motor vehicle, comprising:
a differential planetary gear system, which has at least one ring gear with ring gear toothing, at least one sun gear with sun gear toothing, planetary gears, which engage with the ring gear toothing on a first side and with the sun gear toothing on a second side, and a planetary gear carrier on which the planetary gears are rotatably mounted,
wherein the ring gear toothing and the sun gear toothing have the same number of respective gear wheel teeth, and the ring gear toothing and the sun gear toothing are equally spaced about a respective circumference of the at least one ring gear and the at least one sun gear,
wherein at least the ring gear toothing and the sun gear toothing are formed as stub gear toothing,
wherein the ring gear is coupled to a first drive wheel of the powertrain and the sun gear is coupled to a second drive wheel of the powertrain in a torque-transferring manner, and
wherein the ring gear has external toothing, by which the ring gear is coupled to the first drive wheel in a torque-transferring manner, and the sun gear has internal toothing, by which the sun gear is coupled to the second drive wheel in a torque-transferring manner.

2. The powertrain according to claim 1 , wherein the stub gear toothing is a rolled stub gear toothing.

3. The powertrain according to claim 2 , wherein the stub gear toothing has a tooth height which is less than 1.2 times a module of the stub gear toothing.

4. The powertrain according to claim 1 , wherein the planetary gears are engaged with the ring gear toothing and the sun gear toothing, with suspension of axial forces.

5. The powertrain according to claim 1 , wherein the ring gear toothing and the sun gear toothing are formed as one of a helical gearing, double helical gearing, herringbone gearing, bevel gearing, or double angle gearing.

6. The powertrain according to claim 1 , wherein the external toothing of the ring gear is engaged with a hollow shaft element, which is coupled to the first drive wheel.

7. The powertrain according to claim 6 , wherein the hollow shaft element is configured in a bell shape.

8. The powertrain according to claim 6 , wherein the ring gear is at least partially enclosed by the hollow shaft element.

9. The powertrain according to claim 1 , wherein the external toothing is provided on an outer diameter of the ring gear which is greater than an inner diameter of the ring gear at which the ring gear engages with the planetary gears.

10. The powertrain according to claim 1 , wherein the external toothing of the ring gear is provided on a same axial plane as the ring gear.

Assignees

• Audi Ag
• Profiroll Tech Gmbh

Inventors

• Buratowski Philipp
• Heilmann Markus
• Hirsch Michael
• Weihmann Christian
• Strehmel Peter

Classifications

• F16H57/08

  of gearings with members having orbital motion · CPC title

• F16H1/28

  with gears having orbital motion · CPC title

• F16H48/08

  comprising bevel gears · CPC title

• B60K17/346

  the transfer gear being a differential gear · CPC title

• F16H48/06 Primary

  with gears having orbital motion · CPC title