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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2016
Gkn Automotive Ltd., Redditch, Worcestershire, GB;
Jan Haupt, Kürten, DE;
GKN Automotive Ltd., Redditch, Worcestershire, GB;
Abstract
An electric drive for driving a driving axle of a motor vehicle comprises a housing assembly; an electric machine with a hollow shaft that is rotatingly supported around a rotational axis; a transmission unit with a transmission shaft that is rotatingly drivable by a motor shaft around a rotational axis parallel to the rotational axis; a double clutch unit with a clutch carrier rotatingly drivable by the transmission shaft around the rotational axis, and two plate packages; wherein the clutch carrier comprises a casing portion and two cover portions; two actuators that are arranged outside the clutch carrier; two force transmitting members for transmitting a force generated by the actuator to the plate packages, wherein the cover portions each comprise a plurality of circumferentially distributed through-apertures through which cams of the force transmitting members extend; and a control unit for controlling the actuators.