B60K2006/4808

Hybrid drive of a motor vehicle

A hybrid drive of a motor vehicle has an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, an automated manual transmission with an input shaft and an output shaft, and a phase shifter gearbox in a planetary design with two input elements and one output element. A first input element of the gearbox is connected to a hollow shaft arranged in a coaxial manner around the output shaft, which is connectable to an idler gear of an axially adjacent spur gear stage of the manual transmission, and, for bypassing the gearbox, is connectable to the second input element or the output element of the gearbox. The second input element of the gearbox is permanently in drive connection with a rotor of the electric machine, and the output element of the gearbox is connected in a torque-proof manner to the output shaft.

ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE WITH POWER DISSIPATION FEATURE

An electrified vehicle according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an energy recovery mechanism, and a controller configured to selectively activate at least a battery cooling mode to dissipate excess power from the energy recovery mechanism.

CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
20170253240 · 2017-09-07 ·

A control device for a vehicle includes: an inter-vehicle distance detector that detects a presence or an absence of a preceding vehicle, and an inter-vehicle distance between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle; an effectiveness ratio setting module that sets an effectiveness ratio indicating a proportion of an accelerator operation amount of a driver to be reflected in a drive control, on the basis of the inter-vehicle distance when the inter-vehicle distance is less than a predetermined standard value; and a drive controller that performs the drive control on the vehicle on the basis of the effectiveness ratio. When the preceding vehicle goes away in a state in which the effectiveness ratio is lowered, the effectiveness ratio setting module gradually increases the effectiveness ratio for a period for which an accelerator is on.

VEHICLE DRIVE DEVICE

A first case portion includes an end wall portion disposed on a first axial side with respect to a transmission. A second case portion is disposed on the first axial side with respect to a rotor of a rotary electric machine, and includes a first support portion that supports a rotor shaft and a second support portion disposed on a second axial side with respect to the rotor of the rotary electric machine to support the rotor shaft. The second support portion includes a bearing attachment portion to which a rotor bearing for supporting the rotor shaft is attached, and radially extending portion that extends from bearing attachment portion toward an outer side in a radial direction. A speed reducer is disposed between the radially extending portion and the end wall portion in axial direction to face the radially extending portion and the end wall portion in the axial direction.

TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR USE IN A HYBRID VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
20210402864 · 2021-12-30 ·

A transmission system includes an input shaft, a transmission housing, and a planetary gear system rotatably coupled to the input shaft. The planetary gear system has a first and second gear ratio. The transmission system additionally includes an output shaft, a first electric machine, a second electric machine, and a shifting assembly. The shifting assembly includes a first stationary clutch element and a second stationary clutch element. The first electric machine is configured to apply rotational torque to the planetary gear system to synchronize rotational speed of the planetary gear system when moving between the first and second gear ratios, and the second electric machine is configured to provide rotational torque to the output shaft when the first electric machine applies rotational torque to the planetary gear system to synchronize rotational speed of the planetary gear system when moving between the first and second gear ratio.

Hybrid powertrain for vehicles

A hybrid powertrain may include an engine input shaft connected to an engine by a main clutch, a motor input shaft mounted coaxially with the engine input shaft and connected to a motor, a center synchronizer installed to interrupt connection between the engine input shaft and the motor input shaft, first and second output shafts mounted parallel to the engine input shaft, a variable driving gear provided on the motor input shaft to maintain or increase a rotation speed of the motor input shaft and then to transmit the maintained or increased rotation speed to the first output shaft, and plural external gear pairs installed to form different transmission gear ratios between the engine input shaft and the first output shaft and between the engine input shaft and the second output shaft.

PRIME MOVER SYSTEMS WITH A POWER TAKE-OFF SYSTEM AND A TRANSMISSION
20210394612 · 2021-12-23 · ·

A prime mover system includes a first prime mover, a first drive shaft, a differential, a power take-off (PTO) drive shaft, a second drive shaft, a transmission, a first accessory, and an output shaft. The first drive shaft is operatively coupled to the first prime mover. The differential is coupled to the first drive shaft. The PTO drive shaft is coupled to the differential. The second drive shaft is coupled to the differential. The transmission is coupled to the second drive shaft. The first accessory is operatively coupled to the PTO drive shaft. The output shaft is coupled to the transmission. The transmission is configured to transfer rotation of the second drive shaft to the output shaft. Rotation of the PTO drive shaft is independent of rotation of the output shaft.

Hybrid system and method for conserving regenerative braking energy in a vehicle
11203342 · 2021-12-21 ·

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.

DYNAMIC VEHICLE COMPONENT DATA APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS
20210390800 · 2021-12-16 ·

A system includes a computing device with memory configured to store instructions and a processor to execute the instructions for operations that include causing a request to be transmitted from a computing device remote from the server, receiving, at the computing device, responsive to the request, a serial number for a vehicle component, and storing the serial number on a memory of the computing device.

Hybrid power system having CVT

A hybrid power system includes a CVT, an internal combustion engine, an electric motor, a clutch, and a synchronization apparatus. The CVT has a CVT input shaft and a CVT output shaft. The internal combustion engine has an internal combustion engine output shaft and the electric motor has an electric motor shaft. The clutch is provided between the internal combustion engine and the CVT. The synchronization apparatus is provided between the internal combustion engine and the electric motor. The clutch and the synchronization apparatus can be adjusted to connect the internal combustion engine output shaft to the electric motor shaft via the CVT, and connect the internal combustion engine output shaft to the electric motor shaft without the CVT. In an example embodiment, the synchronization apparatus includes a first synchronizer between the internal combustion engine and the CVT, and a second synchronizer between the CVT and the electric motor.