Provided is a receiving device for a vehicle interior, having a receiving section for receiving objects in a receiving position of the receiving section, a base body in which the receiving section is arranged in a rest position of the receiving section, a drive unit for moving the receiving section from the rest position via an intermediate position into the receiving position, in which the receiving section projects from the base body, the drive unit applying a first drive force to the receiving section for moving from the rest position into the intermediate position and applying a second drive force to the receiving section for moving from the intermediate position into the receiving position, the first drive force being smaller than the second drive force, further comprising a damping device for applying a first damping force against said first driving force and a second damping force against said second driving force to said receiving portion, said second damping force being greater than said first damping force.

A vehicle drive apparatus includes: a sleeve including a first peripheral surface provided side by side with a spline; a connecting member including a groove provided side by side with a spline in spline engagement with the spline, recessed radially relative to the first peripheral surface, and including a bottom surface that serves as a second peripheral surface facing the first peripheral surface; and a tolerance ring disposed in the groove so as to exert a radial elastic force between the sleeve and the connecting member.

The disclosure relates to a drive train for a motor vehicle containing an internal combustion engine, a transmission connected downstream thereof, drive wheels and a differential arranged between the drive wheels and the transmission. In order to eliminate or at least reduce the vibrational eigenmodes behind the transmission, a centrifugal pendulum is assigned adjacent to the differential.

A method to control a road vehicle provided with a clutch, which connects an internal combustion engine to drive wheels and is arranged upstream of a servo-assisted transmission; the control method comprises the steps of: checking whether the tyres of the drive wheels are close to a grip limit; and opening the clutch so that the clutch transmits a torque to the drive wheels with a slip of the clutch that is constant and other than zero when the tyres of the drive wheels are close to the grip limit.

A transmission designed to transmit a torque flow from a driving device to a driven device. The transmission includes an actuator including a rotor and a stator. The transmission further includes an output or an input shaft. The rotor is connected non-rotatably to the output shaft or to the input shaft, and the actuator and the driven device are arranged at different ends of the output shaft or the input shaft. The actuator is different from the driving device and the driven device.

A powertrain system includes a flex plate, a transmission input shaft, a torque coupling, a one-way clutch, and a damper assembly. The flex plate is configured to be connected to a crankshaft of an engine. The torque coupling connects the transmission input shaft to the flex plate while allowing slip between the transmission input shaft and the flex plate. The one-way clutch is configured to couple the flex plate to the torque coupling. The damper assembly couples the flex plate to the one-way clutch and is configured to inhibit vibration transmission from the flex plate to the one-way clutch.

In an electric actuator, an output shaft has a housing recess. An end of a motor shaft is housed in the housing recess. A first bearing supports the motor shaft in the housing recess. The motor shaft has an eccentric shaft. A deceleration mechanism includes an external gear connected to the eccentric shaft via a second bearing, an internal gear engaged with the external gear, a flange part expanding from the output shaft, and protrusions protruding from the flange part and disposed along the circumferential direction. The external gear has holes recessed on the other side in the axial direction. The holes are disposed along the circumferential direction and each have an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the protrusion. The protrusions are inserted into the holes respectively and support the external gear to be swingable around the central axis via the inner surfaces of the holes.

Provided is a transmission system including: a gear shaft that receives a force acting in a direction perpendicular to a rotational centerline; a rotor shaft that is rotatably supported at both ends on the same rotational centerline as the gear shaft, spline-fitted with the gear shaft, and coupled to a rotor of an electric motor; and an elastic member that is press-fitted between an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface of the gear shaft and the rotor shaft that face each other in a radial direction centered at the rotational centerline. An amount of compression of the rubber member as the elastic member in the radial direction increases from a press-fitting start position toward a press-fitting end position located respectively on a leading end side and a base end side at one end of the rotor shaft.

A driveline assembly for an electric vehicle for driving a pair of wheels. The driveline assembly includes an electric motor having an output shaft. A differential is coupled with the output shaft and is configured to receive torque from the output shaft. A pair of primary shafts are each coupled with the differential and configured to receive torque from the differential. A pair of end reducers are each configured to receive torque from one of the primary shafts and provide a gear reduction and torque multiplying effect at a wheel output. A controller is connected to the electric motor and is configured to superimpose a torque fluctuation at the output shaft to counteract vibrations in the driveline assembly.

An axle assembly having a planetary gear set. The planetary gear set may include first and second sets of planet gears that may mesh with a sun gear and a planetary ring gear. The second set of planet gears may be spaced apart from the first set of planet gears and may be positioned in counterphase with the first set of planet gears.