Vehicle power transmission apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12372136-B2
Application number	US-202318540017-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2023
Priority date	Dec 19, 2022
Publication date	Jul 29, 2025
Grant date	Jul 29, 2025

Abstract

A vehicle power transmission apparatus including: (i) a flywheel provided with a center hole in which an end portion of a crankshaft of an engine is inserted such that an outer circumferential surface of the end portion of the crankshaft is fitted in a fitting portion of the center hole; (ii) an input shaft to which a power of the engine is transmitted through the flywheel; and (iii) a disk including an outer peripheral portion connected to an outer peripheral portion of the flywheel, and provided with a center hole spline-fitted on an outer circumferential surface of an engine-side end portion of the input shaft. The outer circumferential surface of the engine-side end portion of the input shaft has a diameter larger than a diameter of the fitting portion of the center hole of the flywheel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle power transmission apparatus comprising:
a flywheel provided with a center hole in which an end portion of a crankshaft of an engine is to be inserted such that an outer circumferential surface of the end portion of the crankshaft is to be fitted in a fitting portion of the center hole;
an input shaft to which a power of the engine is to be transmitted through the flywheel; and
a disk including an outer peripheral portion that is connected to an outer peripheral portion of the flywheel, and provided with a center hole that is spline-fitted on an outer circumferential surface of an engine-side end portion of the input shaft,
wherein the outer circumferential surface of the engine-side end portion of the input shaft, which is spline-fitted in the center hole of the disk, has a diameter larger than a diameter of the fitting portion of the center hole of the flywheel which is to be fitted on the outer circumferential surface of the end portion of the crankshaft.

2. The vehicle power transmission apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the flywheel is provided with a plurality of bolt receiving holes which are located on an outer side of the center hole in a radial direction of the flywheel and which are arranged at a predetermined interval in a circumferential direction of the flywheel, such that the flywheel is to be fastened to a flange portion of the crankshaft located on an outer side of the end portion of the crankshaft in a radial direction of the crankshaft, by fastening bolts received in the bolt receiving holes, and
wherein the diameter of the outer circumferential surface of the engine-side end portion of the input shaft, which is spline-fitted in the center hole of the disk, is larger than a diameter of a circumference passing through centers of the bolt receiving holes.

3. The vehicle power transmission apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the disk includes an annular-shaped thin portion which is located on an outer side of the center hole that is spline-fitted on the input shaft, in a radial direction of the disk, and which has a thickness smaller than other portions of the disk.

4. The vehicle power transmission apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the input shaft is configured to connect to a generator, in a power transmittable manner, the generator is configured to generate an electric power, by the power of the engine, the electric power is supplied to an electric motor configured to generate a drive torque.

5. The vehicle power transmission apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the input shaft is configured to connect to a rotor, in a power transmittable manner, of an electric motor of inner rotor type or outer rotor type.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd
• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Hotta Shintaro
• Amakawa Masaki

Classifications

• B60K6/485

  Motor-assist type · CPC title

• B60K6/26

  characterised by the motors or the generators · CPC title

• B60K6/405

  Housings · CPC title

• B60K6/387

  Actuated clutches, i.e. clutches engaged or disengaged by electric, hydraulic or mechanical actuating means · CPC title

• B60K6/48

  Parallel type · CPC title