Hybrid drive device for a motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9631709-B2
Application number	US-201414913249-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 1, 2014
Priority date	Aug 21, 2013
Publication date	Apr 25, 2017
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017

Abstract

A hybrid drive device for a motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, and two planetary gear trains which are shiftable into different gear stages by shifting elements and brakes and which are connectable via input elements and output elements with a driven input shaft and an output shaft and have reaction elements which can be coupled or braked. The internal combustion engine is in driving relation to a first input shaft and the electric machine is in driving relation to a second coaxial input shaft. The two planetary gear trains are coupled to each other such that via the clutches and brake shifting of four forward gears can be implemented via the internal combustion engine and shifting of three forward gears or reverse gears can be implemented via the electric machine.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hybrid drive device for a motor vehicle, comprising:
a first input shaft;
a second input shaft disposed in coaxial relationship to the first input shaft;
a common output shaft;
an internal combustion engine in driving relation to the first input shaft;
an electric machine in driving relation to the second input shaft; and
first and second planetary gear trains shiftable into different gear stages, wherein reaction elements of the first and second planetary gear trains can be coupled or braked, said first planetary gear train including a housing-fixed sun gear, a spider, and a ring gear which is fixedly connected to the second input shaft, said second planetary gear train including a sun gear fixedly connected to the second input shaft, a spider fixedly connected to the output shaft, and a ring gear,
said first and second planetary gear trains being coupled to each other with four clutches and a housing-fixed brake of four forward gears, with a first one of the clutches being capable to connect the spider of the first planetary gear to the first input shaft, with a second one of the clutches being capable to connect the ring gear of the first planetary gear with the first input shaft, with a third one of the clutches being capable to connect the spider of the first planetary gear to the output shaft, and with a fourth one of the clutches being capable to connect the ring gear of the second planetary gear with the second input shaft or to connect the spider of the second planetary gear with the second input shaft,
said brake being configured to brake the ring gear of the second planetary gear train.

2. The hybrid drive device of claim 1 , wherein a through-drive from the internal combustion engine to the electric machine is controllable without a drive connection via actuation of the first or second one of the clutches, with the first clutch realizing a different gear transmission ratio than the second clutch between the internal combustion engine and the electric machine, such that a lack of the drive connection between components associated with the first or second clutches is established.

3. The hybrid drive device of claim 1 , wherein the first and second clutches form a double clutch, with the first and second clutches being arranged axially behind one another.

4. The hybrid drive device of claim 1 , wherein the first and second clutches form a double clutch, with the first and second clutches being arranged radially above one another.

5. The hybrid drive device of claim 1 , wherein the first and second planetary gear trains are each configured as a negative-ratio gear train.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Scholle Tassilo
• Vollmer Frank
• Hummel Steffen
• Meixner Christian
• Müller Jörg
• Resch Rico
• Leesch Mirko

Classifications

• Y02T10/62

  Hybrid vehicles · CPC title

• F16H3/725 Primary

  with means to change ratio in the mechanical gearing · CPC title

• B60Y2400/73

  Planetary gearings · CPC title

• F16D21/02

  for interconnecting three or more shafts or other transmission members in different ways (in endless-track vehicles B62D) · CPC title

• B60K6/365 Primary

  with the gears having orbital motion · CPC title