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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
May. 10, 2013
Goldhofer Aktiengesellschaft, Memmingen, DE;
Thomas Boeer, Ungerhausen, DE;
Armin Baader, Erkheim, DE;
GOLDHOFER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Memmingen, DE;
Abstract
A drive device for motor vehicles including one or more electric motors, each of which is associated with at least one drive wheel rotatable on a steering knuckle and drives the wheel via a step-down gearbox. The gearbox is installed in the wheel hub of the respective drive wheel and a disconnect device for coupling and decoupling the respective electric motor from the respective gearbox is provided. The steering knuckle is formed as an axle tube in which a drive shaft is rotatably mounted, the drive shaft being able to be brought into a driving connection to the rotor of the electric motor at the inner end of the shaft and to the input of the gearbox at the outer end of the shaft when it is to perform driving.