Gearwheel for an electric vehicle transmission

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12196304-B2
Application number	US-202017604257-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2020
Priority date	Apr 17, 2019
Publication date	Jan 14, 2025
Grant date	Jan 14, 2025

Abstract

A gearwheel (20) for a gear step in an electric vehicle transmission (18) includes a gearwheel carrier and a toothed ring (30) having an external toothing (42). The toothed ring is rotationally fixable to the gearwheel carrier. The gearwheel carrier is formed by a first partial carrier (38) and a second partial carrier (40) that are at least partially axially spaced apart and extend from the toothed ring radially inward. An axial spacing of the two partial carriers is greater, at least partially, than an axial length of the toothed ring.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) for an electric vehicle ( 10 ), comprising:
a pinion ( 26 ) drivingly connectable to an electric prime mover ( 22 ); and
a gearwheel arrangement with a gearwheel ( 20 ) engaged with the pinion, the gearwheel ( 20 ) comprising a gearwheel carrier and a toothed ring ( 30 ) having an external toothing ( 42 ), the toothed ring rotationally fixable to the gearwheel carrier,
wherein a center distance between a center of the pinion and a center of the gearwheel ( 20 ) is no less than fourteen and a half centimeters and no greater than twenty centimeters,
wherein the gearwheel carrier is formed by a first partial carrier ( 38 ) and a second partial carrier ( 40 ) that are at least partially axially spaced apart and extend from the toothed ring radially inward,
wherein at least a portion of an axial spacing (D) between the first and second partial carriers ( 38 , 40 ) is greater than an axial length of the toothed ring,
wherein the gearwheel arrangement has a transmission ratio greater than eight, and
wherein one or both of:
the first partial carrier ( 38 ) has a profile in a radial direction that differs from the second partial carrier ( 40 ); and
the first partial carrier has a wall thickness that differs from the second partial carrier.

2. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein the first partial carrier ( 38 ) is formed by at least one section of a first housing section of a housing ( 36 ) for a transmission component ( 24 ), and the second partial carrier ( 40 ) is formed by at least one section of a second housing section of the housing ( 36 ) for the transmission component ( 24 ).

3. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 2 , wherein the housing ( 36 ) of the transmission component ( 24 ) defines a radial area between the transmission component and the toothed ring ( 30 ) such that a gearwheel diameter is greater than a radial length of the transmission component.

4. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 2 , wherein a ratio of a radial length of the housing ( 36 ) of the transmission component ( 24 ) with respect to a radial length of the transmission component is greater than two.

5. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 2 , wherein the transmission component ( 24 ) comprises a differential, and the housing ( 36 ) of the differential is formed from housing sections that are symmetrical.

6. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein the toothed ring ( 30 ) is connected to the gearwheel carrier in one or more of a form-locking, friction-locking, and force-locking manner.

7. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 6 , wherein the toothed ring ( 30 ) is connected to the gearwheel carrier by one or more of bonding, screwing, pressing, and welding the toothed ring to the gearwheel carrier.

8. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein one or more of:
the external toothing ( 42 ) has a module in the range from one millimeter to one and eight-tenths millimeters;
the external toothing has helical teeth having a helix angle β (beta) in the range from five degrees to forty-five degrees;
the toothed ring ( 30 ) has an outer diameter in the range from twenty-six centimeters to thirty-four centimeters;
the external toothing has a tooth depth in the range from one millimeter to two and a half millimeters; and
the toothed ring is made of metal.

9. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein one or more of:
the external toothing ( 42 ) has a module of one and fifty-one hundredths millimeters;
the external toothing has helical teeth having a helix angle B (beta) in the range from twenty degrees to thirty degrees;
the toothed ring ( 30 ) has an outer diameter in the range from twenty-six centimeters to thirty-one and forty-eight hundredths centimeters;
the external toothing has a tooth depth of one and a half millimeters; and
the toothed ring is made of case hardened steel.

10. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein:
the external toothing has a spur gear tooth system or a bevel gear cutting; and
the external toothing comprises an involute gearing.

11. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 10 , wherein the involute gearing has an addendum modification.

12. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein an outer diameter of the toothed ring has a ratio with respect to a shaft diameter of a shaft for the gearwheel in the range from six to seven and seven-tenths.

13. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein the center distance between the center of the pinion and the center of the gearwheel is in the range from seventeen and a half centimeters and eighteen centimeters.

14. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein the electric vehicle transmission has a single gear step established by the gearwheel arrangement.

15. The electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 , wherein the transmission ratio is eight and nine-tenths.

16. An electric vehicle ( 10 ), comprising:
the electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ) of claim 1 ;
a differential, wherein the toothed ring ( 30 ) is rotationally fixed to a housing ( 36 ) of the differential in order to form the gearwheel ( 20 ); and
an electric prime mover ( 22 ), wherein the pinion ( 26 ) is arranged, in a rotationally fixed manner, at an output shaft ( 28 ) of the electric prime mover and is in engagement with the gearwheel in order to multiply an input power of the electric prime mover.

17. A gearwheel ( 20 ) for a gear step in an electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ), comprising:
a gearwheel carrier; and
a toothed ring ( 30 ) having an external toothing ( 42 ), the toothed ring rotationally fixable to the gearwheel carrier,
wherein the gearwheel carrier is formed by a first partial carrier ( 38 ) and a second partial carrier ( 40 ) that are at least partially axially spaced apart and extend from the toothed ring radially inward,
wherein at least a portion of an axial spacing (D) between the first and second partial carriers ( 38 , 40 ) is greater than an axial length of the toothed ring, and
wherein one or both of the first partial carrier ( 38 ) and the second partial carrier ( 40 ) comprises a reinforcement in the form of a support grid arranged at the one or both of the first and second partial carriers ( 38 , 40 ) in order to counteract axial loads acting upon the gearwheel during an operation of the electric vehicle transmission ( 18 ), the reinforcement having one or both of a honeycomb pattern and a waffle pattern.

Assignees

• Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen

Inventors

• Jung Andreas
• Wesa Matthias
• Gaber Martin

Classifications

• F16H2055/176

  Ring gears with inner teeth · CPC title

• F16H2048/385

  of the ring or crown gear · CPC title

• F16H2048/085

  characterised by shafts or gear carriers for orbital gears · CPC title

• F16H55/12 Primary

  with body or rim assembled out of detachable parts · CPC title

• F16H55/08

  Profiling · CPC title