Hybrid drive of a motor vehicle and method for controlling same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9327713-B2
Application number	US-201113806687-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 5, 2011
Priority date	Jun 28, 2010
Publication date	May 3, 2016
Grant date	May 3, 2016

Abstract

A hybrid drive of a motor vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine with a drive shaft, an electric machine having a rotor and being operable as a motor and as a generator, and a multistage conventional gearbox with two coaxially arranged input shafts and a common output shaft. The first input shaft is arranged centrally within the second input shaft which is embodied as a hollow shaft. The first input shaft can be connected to the drive shaft of the internal combustion engine via an assigned clutch; the second input shaft has a drive connection to the rotor of the electric machine; and the two input shafts can be selectively placed in a drive connection with the output shaft via a plurality of gearwheel sets with a different transmission ratio and a shiftable speed clutch.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hybrid drive of a motor vehicle, comprising a multistage manual transmission, the multistage manual transmission comprising:
a second input shaft, being a hollow shaft, connected to a rotor of an electric machine;
a first input shaft, being centrally within the second input shaft;
an output shaft selectively connectable to the first input shaft and the second input shaft via a plurality of gearwheel sets and a shiftable speed clutch;
an engageable and disengageable positive shifting clutch configured to couple to the first input shaft and the second input shaft;
a separating clutch connected to the first shaft at a first side of the separating clutch and configured to connect to a drive shaft of a power engine at a second side of the separating clutch;
a first countershaft configured to maintain a drive connection with the first input shaft via fixed gears;
a second countershaft configured to maintain a drive connection with the second input shaft via fixed gears; and
a transmission housing, wherein the plurality of gearwheel sets, the shiftable speed clutch, and the first and second countershafts are contained within the transmission housing, wherein the electric machine and the engageable and disengageable positive shifting clutch are located outside the transmission housing.

2. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein a part of the separating clutch on the second side and the second input shaft are configured to be coupled to one another via the engageable and disengageable positive shifting clutch.

3. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein the electric machine and the engageable and disengageable positive shifting clutch are arranged between the separating clutch and a wall of the transmission housing facing towards the power engine; and
the electric machine, the engageable and disengageable positive shifting clutch, and the separating clutch occupy an installation space of a double clutch arrangement of an equivalent double clutch transmission.

4. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein the engageable and disengageable positive shifting clutch is one of a friction synchronized synchronous clutch and an unsynchronized dog clutch.

5. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the shiftable speed clutches of the gearwheel sets assigned to the second input shaft are unsynchronized dog clutches.

6. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein the electric machine is coaxially arranged over the second input shaft and that the rotor of the electric machine is directly rotationally fixed to the second input shaft or is in drive connection with the second input shaft via a transmission stage.

7. The hybrid drive according to claim 6 , wherein the transmission stage is a planetary transmission comprising:
a hollow gear,
a planetary carrier with a plurality of planetary gears in meshing engagement with the hollow gear, and
a sun gear in meshing engagement with the planetary gears,
wherein the hollow gear is rotationally fixed to the rotor of the electric machine, the planetary carrier is rotationally fastened on the second input shaft and the sun gear is latched rigidly to the transmission housing.

8. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic machine is arranged axially parallel to the second input shaft and the rotor of the electric machine is in drive connection with the second input shaft via a transmission stage.

9. The hybrid drive according to claim 8 , wherein the transmission stage is one of:
a spur gear transmission with a first gear rotationally fixed to the rotor of the electric machine and a second gear rotationally fixed to the second input shaft and being in meshing engagement with the first gear; and
a chain transmission with a first chain sprocket rotationally fixed to the rotor of the electric machine and a second chain sprocket arranged in rotationally fixed manner on the second input shaft as well as being in positive drive connection with the first chain sprocket via a closed link chain.

10. The hybrid drive according to claim 8 , wherein the transmission stage is a belt transmission with a first pulley rotationally fixed to the rotor of the electric machine and a second pulley arranged in rotationally fixed manner on the second input shaft as well as being in non-positive drive connection with the first pulley.

11. The hybrid drive according to claim 6 , wherein the transmission stage comprises a transmission ratio between 1.25 and 1.67.

Assignees

• Kaltenbach Johannes
• Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen

Inventors

• Kaltenbach Johannes

Classifications

• B60K6/405

  Housings · CPC title

• B60K6/387 Primary

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

• Y10S903/902

  Prime movers comprising electrical and internal combustion motors · CPC title

• F16D21/06

  at least two driving shafts or two driven shafts being concentric · CPC title

• B60K6/48

  Parallel type · CPC title