Drive device for a vehicle and vehicle comprising the drive device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9701187-B2
Application number	US-201414767213-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 20, 2014
Priority date	Feb 14, 2013
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

A drive device which can use a hybrid drive as well as a torque distribution using the same electric motor and which can also have a simple structure. The drive device ( 1 ) can be coupled or is coupled to a first and a second motor ( 6, 7 ), the second motor ( 7 ) can be used in accordance with the shift state of a shifting device ( 13 ) for a drive or for an active torque distribution.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A drive device for a vehicle, comprising:
a first and a second output shaft;
a first interface for coupling a first engine;
a differential device for distributing the drive torque from the first interface to the first and second output shaft, the differential device including an input and two outputs and the input of the differential device being coupled to the first interface and the two outputs of the differential device being coupled to the first and the second output shafts;
a second interface for transferring the drive torque of a second engine; and
an intermediate gear, the intermediate gear being situated between the second interface and the differential device;
the intermediate gear including a first and a second output, the first output being rotatably fixedly coupled to the input of the differential device and the second output being rotatably fixedly coupled to one of the first and second output shafts;
a shifter, the shifter being designed to shift the intermediate gear into at least two different shifting states;
in a first shifting state of the shifter, the drive torque being guided from the second interface or from the second engine to the differential device; and
in a second shifting state, the drive torque from the second interface or from the second engine being used for torque distribution; and
the intermediate gear including two inputs, the shifter being designed to guide the drive torque from the second interface or from the second engine into the intermediate gear via a first input of the two inputs in the first shifting state and via a second input of the two inputs in the second shifting state,
wherein the intermediate gear includes a drive planetary gear set and a distribution planetary gear set, sun gears of the drive planetary gear set and of the distribution planetary gear set being coupled to one another and,
wherein the drive planetary gear set includes an annulus gear fastened to the housing or stationary, a planetary carrier, and a set of planet wheels rotatably mounted on the planetary carrier and meshing with the sun gear of the drive planetary gear set and with the annulus gear of the drive planetary gear set, the planetary carrier forming the first output, and a first input gear, the first input gear being rotatably fixedly coupled to the sun gears.

2. The drive device as recited in claim 1 wherein the distribution planetary gear set includes an annulus gear, a planetary carrier, and a set of planet wheels rotatably fixedly mounted on the planetary carrier meshing with the sun gear of the distribution planetary gear set and with the annulus gear of the distribution planetary gear set, the planetary carrier forming the second output, and a second input gear, the second input gear being rotatably fixedly coupled to the annulus gear of the distribution planetary gear set.

3. The drive device as recited in claim 2 wherein a first input gear and the second input gear are situated coaxially to one another.

4. The drive device as recited in claim 3 wherein the first and the second input gears have the same diameter.

5. The drive device as recited in claim 1 wherein the second interface includes an interface annulus gear, the shifter including a shiftable coupling member so that the interface annulus gear is coupleable to the first or to the second input gear.

6. The drive device as recited in claim 1 wherein the shifter is designed to shift the intermediate gear into an intermediate shifting state between the first and the second shifting states where the second interface is decoupled from the intermediate gear.

7. The drive device as recited in claim 1 further comprising a transmission situated between the second interface and the second engine.

8. A vehicle comprising the drive device as recited in claim 1 .

Assignees

• Schaeffler Technologies Ag

Inventors

• Smetana Tomas
• Wurzberger Philip

Classifications

• B60K6/365 Primary

  with the gears having orbital motion · CPC title

• B60K2023/043

  Control means for varying left-right torque distribution, e.g. torque vectoring · CPC title

• F16H48/36

  characterised by intentionally generating speed difference between outputs · CPC title

• Y10S903/911

  with two or more gear sets · CPC title

• B60K17/165

  provided between independent half axles (B60K17/18, B60K17/20 take precedence) · CPC title