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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2011
Applicants:
Frank Fickel, Uetze, DE;
Jens Liebold, Chemnitz, DE;
Erik Schneider, Rossau, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr, Berlin, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 3/72 (2006.01); F16H 37/06 (2006.01); F16H 48/06 (2006.01); B60K 6/445 (2007.10); F16H 3/54 (2006.01); F16H 48/08 (2006.01); B60K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 3/54 (2013.01); F16H 48/08 (2013.01); B60K 2001/001 (2013.01); F16H 2200/0021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device for driving a vehicle includes a housing, an electric motor, a differential gear unit, and a planetary gear unit. The planetary gear unit includes a sun gear connected to the electric motor, a ring gear coupleable via a first coupling to the housing, a plurality of planetary gears disposed between the ring gear and the sun gear and mounted on a planet carrier coupled to the differential gear unit, the planet carrier coupleable to the ring gear by a second coupling, the second coupling being disposed in a plane with the first coupling parallel to the electric motor.