Daimler-Benz Ag

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Mercedes-Benz Aktiengesellschaft

Dietrich Sahm

Dean C Karnopp

Diether V Scarpatetti

Roland Kemmler

Walter Klinkner

Hubert Schnuepke

Juergen Lang

Hermann Bosch

Diether Von Scarpatetti

Dieter V Scarpatetti

Rodger N Bull

David Beard

Diether Von Scarpatti

A drive system for a motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a transmission. The internal combustion engine has an associated driveshaft, the transmission has an associated transmission shaft, and the driveshaft and the transmission shaft are connected to one another. A free installation space is provided between the internal combustion engine and the transmission in the direction of the driveshaft and, respectively, of the transmission shaft. The internal combustion engine has an associated electric machine which can be operated as a starter/generator. The electric machine has an associated power electronics unit which is arranged in the free installation space.

Drive system for a motor vehicle comprising an electric machine

A high-temperature battery for a vehicle with an electric drive and that supplies the electric drive with power has a thermally insulating housing in order to avoid thermal losses. The battery also has a cooling system that limits the operating temperature during the charging and during the power drain. The dissipated heat of the cooling system is used to heat the vehicle. There is provision for the vehicle to be preheated during the charging of the battery so that during the driving mode the temperature to which the passenger compartment has been heated merely has to be maintained. Thus, even when the overall amounts of dissipated heat from the cooling system are low, heating to a comfortable degree is possible.

Cooling system for high temperature battery

A suspension system for motor vehicles has each wheel assigned a spring and a hydraulic unit and arranged in series with the latter. The ground clearance of the vehicle body can thus be altered wheel-by-wheel. A hydraulic feed system enables hydraulic fluid to be displaced between hydraulic units and allows pitching and rolling movements of the vehicle body to be counteracted.

Motor vehicle suspension system

Arranged between hydropneumatic supporting units of a vehicle levelling system is an active bypass and feed system, by means of which hydraulic medium can be displaced between supporting units of different axles or sides of the vehicle, at the same time bypassing a reservoir, in order to counteract pitching and rolling movements of the vehicle.

Hydropneumatic suspension system

The invention relates to a ground-level multipole current supply system for track-guidable, rubber-tired, electrically propulsive vehicles, wherein extruded aluminum profiles are provided within an electrically insulating duct-like shielding for each pole. To permit the current supply system to be kept small and easily installable the shielding is constructed as a self-supporting extruded profile which is fastened, suspended with ducts open downwards, on support arms. The substantially triangular live rails are retained screwlessly by sliding axially behind beads in the shielding. A vee-shaped arrangement of the contact tracks of the two live rails and of the two contact pieces on the current collector side exerts a self-centering influence upon the current collector head, so that the latter can be of simple construction and only little play need be provided for relative movements between current collector head and live rails.

Current supply system for track-guidable, rubber-tired, electrically

The invention relates to an electrically conductive connection between abutting single sections of conductor rails. This connection is made by means of a current conduction cable consisting of bunched conductors and contact shoes. However, in order to be able to accommodate the current conduction cable within the cross-sectional contour of the conductor rails, the cable shoes are in each case constructed in the form of a cylindrical or prismatic connector pin which can be inserted into an opening of corresponding shape within the conductor rail. In most cases, such openings exist in any case in the conductor rails after these have been produced as a hollow section in an extrusion process. The connector pins are suitably of hollow construction and accommodate in their interior the bunched conductor which is only loosely enclosed by it. As a result, the bunched conductor can open out as a result of compression during a relative longitudinal movement of the connector pins.

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Bad Urach, Germany

Dietrich Sahm