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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2017
Nio Usa, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Dimitri Bassis, Menlo Park, CA (US);
NIO USA, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A compact side-by-side motor gearbox unit is provided. The motor gearbox unit includes two independent electric motors and gearboxes with motor drive shafts and gearbox power output shafts mounted in opposite directions, the motors are held in a shared housing. The drive shafts of each electric motor in the motor gearbox unit are offset from one another and not colinear with one another. The power output shafts of the gearboxes are aligned along a common power output axis providing a half-shaft connection to a drive wheel on one side of the motor gearbox unit and a different half-shaft connection to another drive wheel on the other side of the motor gearbox unit.