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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10569632 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2017

Hybrid vehicle and vehicle

Applicant:

Mazda Motor Corporation, Aki-gun, Hiroshima, JP;

Inventors:

Hideo Toyota, Niihama, JP;

Tomoo Sawazaki, Nagoya, JP;

Yukiya Tanaka, Higashihiroshima, JP;

Hiraku Nishikawa, Hiroshima, JP;

Assignee:

Mazda Motor Corporation, Aki-gun, Hiroshima, JP;

Attorney:

Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP

Primary Examiner:

Hau V Phan

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 6/26 (2007.10); B60K 6/36 (2007.10); B60K 6/40 (2007.10); B60K 6/48 (2007.10); B60K 6/52 (2007.10); B60K 6/54 (2007.10); B60K 13/04 (2006.01); B60K 15/063 (2006.01); B60K 17/04 (2006.01); B60K 17/22 (2006.01); B60K 17/356 (2006.01); B60L 50/16 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 1/00 (2013.01); B60K 6/26 (2013.01); B60K 6/36 (2013.01); B60K 6/40 (2013.01); B60K 6/48 (2013.01); B60K 6/52 (2013.01); B60K 6/54 (2013.01); B60K 13/04 (2013.01); B60K 15/063 (2013.01); B60K 17/04 (2013.01); B60K 17/22 (2013.01); B60K 17/356 (2013.01); B60L 50/16 (2019.02); B60K 2006/4808 (2013.01); B60K 2006/4833 (2013.01); Y02T 10/6221 (2013.01); Y02T 10/6265 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7077 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hybrid vehicle according to one aspect of the present invention is a hybrid vehicle including: an engine arranged at a vehicle body front portion; a propeller shaft configured to transmit an output of the engine to wheels arranged at a vehicle body rear portion; and a drive motor provided so as to drive the propeller shaft and supported with a vehicle body, and the propeller shaft transmits an output of the drive motor to wheels arranged at at least one of the vehicle body front portion and the vehicle body rear portion. The propeller shaft is supported with the vehicle body through the drive motor by a middle portion of the propeller shaft in the vehicle body front-rear direction being supported with the drive motor.

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