A power supply system including: a driving motor capable of outputting power for driving a driving wheel; a main battery that stores electricity to be supplied to the driving motor; an engine capable of outputting power for driving the driving wheel; a starter motor that starts the engine; an auxiliary battery that stores electricity to be supplied to the starter motor and auxiliaries; a switch of capable of making or breaking an electric coupling between the auxiliary battery and the starter motor, and the auxiliaries and the main battery; and a control apparatus that diagnoses an abnormality in the auxiliary battery. The main battery is coupled to the auxiliaries via a DC-DC converter capable of stepping down a voltage of electricity stored in the main battery. The auxiliary battery is coupled to the auxiliaries via the switch. The controller diagnoses an abnormality in the auxiliary battery with the switch open.

A hybrid transmission module for a work vehicle is provided. The work vehicle has a chassis and a prime mover carried by the chassis, and the hybrid transmission module includes a mounting bracket configured to mount to one or more of the chassis and the prime mover, a transmission assembly mounted to the mounting bracket, and a hydraulic-electric drive assembly including a manifold mounted to the mounting bracket. The manifold mounts a hydraulic pump and an electric machine and is configured to transfer rotational power from the prime mover to the hydraulic pump and the electric machine. The electric machine, at least in part, drives the transmission assembly.

A hybrid powertrain for a vehicle may include a first input shaft connected to an engine, a second input shaft connected to the engine and coaxially mounted with the first input shaft, a motor input shaft coaxially mounted with the first input shaft and connected to a motor, first and second output shafts mounted in parallel to the first input shaft and the second input shaft, a variable drive gear provided at the motor input shaft to transmit power from the motor input shaft to the first output shaft, a complex synchronizer to couple and separate the first input shaft and the motor input shaft and to couple and separate the variable drive gear and the motor input shaft, and a plurality of external gear pairs configured to respectively define different gear ratios.

A hybrid system for a vehicle that can capture, convert, and store the kinetic energy of the vehicle slowing down the vehicle. The hybrid system includes an electric machine that can be switched between a motor mode and a generator mode, in the motor mode the electric machine can drive the vehicle using energy stored in a battery and in the generator mode the electric machine is driven by the kinetic energy of the vehicle. An air compressor is operably coupled with the electric machine, such as the electric machine drives the air compressor in the generator mode but not in the motor mode. Air compressed by the air compressor can be stored in a tank and the compressed air can be later converted to electrical energy by an air motor for charging the battery.

In a powertrain system including a first torque device and a second torque device having a larger response delay, a control device is configured to act as: a manipulated variable determination section that solves a linear programming problem to determine and output manipulated variables that maximally achieve target state quantities within a plurality of constraints; and a torque device control section. The plurality of constraints include, as upper and lower limit constraint values of the second manipulated variable, a maximum value and a minimum value of the second manipulated variable attainable at the next time step. The control device is further configured to act as a manipulated variable upper and lower limit calculation section that calculates, as the upper and lower limit constraint values, the above-described maximum value and the minimum value, based on the current rotational speed and estimated manipulated variable of the second torque device.

A motor/generator/transmission system includes: an axle; a stator ring having a plurality of stator coils disposed around the periphery of the stator ring, wherein each phase of the plurality of stator coils includes a respective set of multiple parallel non-twisted wires separated at the center tap with electronic switches for connecting the parallel non-twisted wires of each phase of the stator coils all in series, all in parallel, or in a combination of series and parallel; a rotor support structure coupled to the axle; a first rotor ring and a second rotor ring each having an axis of rotation coincident with the axis of rotation of the axle, at least one of the first rotor ring or the second rotor ring being slidably coupled to the rotor support structure and configured to translate along the rotor support structure in a first axial direction or in a second axial direction.

An electromechanical machine that uses electrical power to provide electromechanically-balanced motive torque to one or more mechanical loads, or that uses electromechanically-balanced mechanical power from one or more sources of motive torque to supply electrical power to one or more loads, while seamlessly reconciling the speed and torque differences between such loads-and-sources by use of speed-torque modules and a control means.

A control device of a vehicle that controls the vehicle capable of traveling according to a plurality of traveling modes including a first traveling mode and a second traveling mode. The control device includes a traveling mode control unit configured to cause the vehicle to travel according to any one of the plurality of traveling modes. The traveling mode control unit, when the traveling mode of the vehicle is set to the first traveling mode, shifts the traveling mode of the vehicle to the second traveling mode based on a detection result of a detection unit which detects an output of a power storage device and a transition threshold value. The traveling mode control unit includes a threshold value setting unit which changes a value of the transition threshold value in accordance with a maximum output of the power storage device.

A vehicle driveline system for a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a differential having a differential housing connectable to an engine via a pinion, and two output shafts being connectable with respective wheel axles, and an electrical motor being selectively connected to the differential housing. The differential housing extends into a hollow shaft having a radial protrusion provided with engagement means, such as splines, for connecting with a shifting sleeve, wherein said shifting sleeve is configured to be actuated for connecting the electrical motor to said differential housing.

A 6-speed planetary transmission for a motor vehicle has an input shaft, an output shaft, a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set and a third planetary gear set. The input shaft can be coupled to the first planetary carrier or to the first ring gear via a first shifting element. The first sun gear can be coupled to a gearbox housing via a second shifting element. The first planetary carrier can be coupled to the first ring gear via a third shifting element. The second ring gear or the second planetary carrier can be coupled to the gearbox housing via a fourth shifting element. In addition, the first ring gear or the first planetary carrier, the second sun gear and the third sun gear are connected for conjoint rotation. In addition, the output shaft is connected for conjoint rotation to the second planetary carrier or the second ring gear.