Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Stephan Pollmeyer

Ulrich Mair

Martin Munster

Volker Wagner

Gabriele Fruhmann

Jens Heimann

Martin MÜNSTER

A drive unit, for an electric vehicle, comprising an electric machine that can be arranged in the area of an end of a vehicle axle of the electric vehicle and also a transmission unit, which co-operates with the electric machine, for driving a wheel of the electric vehicle. The electric machine and the transmission unit can be arranged adjacent to the wheel. The electric machine is designed so that the electric machine can be arranged adjacent to a wheel at either of the two ends of the vehicle axle in the drive unit for driving the wheel concerned. The invention also concerns a vehicle axle incorporating the drive unit.

Drive unit and vehicle axle for an electric vehicle

A drive device located closely adjacent to the wheel for a single wheel of a motor vehicle. The drive device has an electric drive that has at least one driveshaft for the wheel. A gearing interacts with the at least one drive shaft for transmitting torque to drive the wheel and is connectable to the individual wheel. A locking mechanism is disposed to lock the wheel and is designed to block the gearing and/or the drive shaft.

Drive device for an individual wheel of a motor vehicle

A drive device () for driving a wheel () of an electrically powered vehicle having an electric machine () and a transmission unit. The transmission unit has a spur gear transmission () and a planetary transmission () which, when viewed in the direction of the flow of force during a traction operation, is positioned on the output side of the electric machine () in the sequence of the planetary transmission () and then the spur gear transmission ().

Drive device for driving a wheel for an electrically powered vehicle

A vehicle axle, in particular a torsion beam axle for an electric vehicle, with at least one trailing arm on which is arranged a drive unit located close to a wheel, and the drive unit comprises an electric machine and a transmission unit. The drive unit, close to the wheel, has at least one supply line and at least one damper such that the drive unit, close to the wheel, is formed at least partially as a trailing arm and the damper is connected, on at least one side, to the drive unit at least in a single-shear manner and can be connected, on at least the other side, to a body of the electric vehicle. The at least one vehicle axle is utilized on a motor vehicle.

Axle for a motor vehicle

A method of producing a trailing arm of a torsion beam axle in which an integrated drive unit of a wheel-adjacent electric drive has an electric machine and a transmission. By using the method, the trailing arm is produced in the form of a casting with a box profile. The contours for producing the area that accommodates the transmission, the connection point to the vehicle body, the bore that receives the cross-member which connects the two trailing arms to one another, the U-profile of the trailing arm, the box profile and the area that accommodates the electric machine, are modeled by cores such that the contours for producing the connection point of the trailing arm to the vehicle body, the bore that receives the cross-member and the U-profile of the trailing arm are modeled by one core.

Method for producing a trailing arm of a twist beam axle in which a drive unit of an electrical drive close to the wheel, comprising an electrical engine and a transmission, is integrated

An axle for a motor vehicle comprises at least a transverse leaf spring () attached directly, or via an auxiliary support frame, to a body () of the motor vehicle by two first mountings (), two control arms () and two wheel carriers (). In each case, an end of the transverse leaf spring () facing toward a respective wheel () of the motor vehicle is rigidly connected to one of the two control arms (), and both of the two control arms () are each orientated substantially in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle. Each of the control arms () is connected by a second mounting () directly, or via an auxiliary support frame, to the body () and also connected, by at least one third mounting (), to one of the wheel carriers ().

A semi-trailing arm axle for a motor vehicle which comprises a semi-trailing arm () for each wheel () of the axle. Each semi-trailing arm () is flexible about the vertical axis and is mounted to the body or on a support frame by at least one mounting (). Each wheel () of the axle is connected to its respective flexible semi-trailing arm () by way of at least one wheel bearing (), and the flexible semi-trailing arm () is the sole wheel-guiding element.

Growing community of inventors

Friedrichshafen, Germany

Stephan Pollmeyer