Navistar International Transportation Corporation

Michael P Lasecki

Nathan L Schuler

Harl Donley

Brent A Barnhart

Jose Antonio Rodriguez

Theodore L Badgley

George E Nicoletti

Thomas B Lisak

Rimas L Petrosius

Jeffrey D Jenks

M Chad Harshbarger

A battery box with a lid and a tray assembly for batteries for a hybrid electric vehicle. The lid and tray assembly are made of steel with an internal and external spray coating of an elastomer with high electrical resistance properties. Batteries are mounted in the tray assembly and enclosed by the lid. The elastomer coating on the tray assembly and the lid provides a non-electrically conductive interior and exterior surface for increased service safety. The steel base material of the tray assembly and the lid provides shielding from electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference associated with the high voltages required to operate electric motors in hybrid electric vehicles. Additionally, the tray assembly has vents designed to optimize cooling of the batteries.

Polyurethane/polyurea elastomer coated steel battery box for hybrid electric vehicle applications

An interface for interfacing an accelerator control input, a service brake control input, and a parking brake control input with a hybrid electric vehicle's electric control system that controls propulsion of the vehicle by controlling the motor torque output of an electric traction drive motor that drives driven wheels of the vehicle. The application of either the service brakes or the parking brake concurrent with the accelerator pedal being at non-idle causes the interface to override the motor torque being requested by the accelerator control input in favor of a zero motor torque request to the control system.

Brake activated torque disable in hybrid electric vehicles

A drive motor mounting module for a hybrid electric vehicle and the motor mounting module in combination with the hybrid electric vehicle. More specifically, the drive motor mounting module is comprised of a drive motor, a front motor mount support bracket, a chassis front support bracket, a chassis cross member, two rear motor mount brackets, two cross braces, two vertical channels and two motor module locating mounts. The entire module can be modularly assembled prior to installation to the vehicle chassis on a main assembly line. The mounting module engages the drive motor to the chassis by three point mountings.

Hybrid electric vehicle drive motor mounting module

An aneroid boost modulator briefly restricts mass air flow from a turbocharged diesel engine intake manifold to a fuel injection pump aneroid control during free engine acceleration to inhibit operation of the aneroid controller until the engine and the turbocharger develop sufficient speed to use the increasing fuel supply efficiently. The modulator eliminates emission of black smoke from the engine during free engine acceleration while having no significant affect on acceleration of the engine under a load as in accelerating a vehicle.

Aneroid boost modulator

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Michael P Lasecki