Transmission unit, power transmission system and vehicle comprising the same

• US 10,166,853 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BYD Company Limited
• Original Assignee: BYD Company Limited
• Inventors: Yang, Dongsheng, Lian, Yubo, Zhang, Jintao, Luo, Hongbin
• Primary Examiner(s): MacArthur, Victor L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US14/755,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20160207389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,281 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/02 comprising more than one electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 17/356 having fluid or electric motor, for driving one or more wheels disposition of motor in, or adjacent to, traction wheel B60K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2006/4808 Electric machine connected or connectable to gearbox output shaft
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/36 characterised by the transmission gearings
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/38 characterised by the driveline clutches shift clutches within the gearing or transmission B60K6/36 , B60K6/54
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/448 Electrical distribution type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/52 Driving a plurality of drive axles, e.g. four-wheel drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/547 the transmission being a stepped gearing
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2304/00 Optimising design; Manufacturing; Testing
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2400/428 Double clutch arrangements; Dual clutches
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2400/70 Gearings
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0822 characterised by the arrangement of at least one reverse gear
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0931 each countershaft having an output gear meshing with a single common gear on the output shaft
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/006 power being selectively transmitted by either one of the parallel flow paths
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/085 with more than one output shaft
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/912 Drive line clutch
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/915 Specific drive or transmission adapted for hev

Abstract

A transmission unit includes: input shafts, each of the input shafts being provided with a shift driving gear thereon; output shafts, each of the output shafts being provided with a shift driven gear configured to mesh with a corresponding shift driving; a motor power shaft configured to rotate together with one of the output shafts; and an output unit configured to rotate with one of the output shafts at different speeds and configured to selectively engage with one of the output shafts so as to rotate together with one of the output shafts. A power transmission system including the transmission unit and a vehicle including the power transmission system are also provided.

Claims

1. A transmission unit for a vehicle, comprising:

a plurality of input shafts, each of the input shafts having a shift driving gear thereon;

a plurality of output shafts, each of the output shafts having a shift driven gear configured to mesh with the corresponding shift driving gear;

a motor power shaft configured to rotate together with one of the output shafts;

an output unit configured to rotate with the one or a different one of the output shafts at a different speed or configured to selectively engage with the one or the different one of the output shafts so as to rotate together with the engaged output shaft;

a reverse output gear configured to selectively rotate together with one of the shift driving gears via a reverse idler gear; and

a reverse synchronizer configured to selectively synchronize the reverse output gear with the reverse idler gear,

wherein both the reverse output gear and the reverse idler gear are fitted over the motor power shaft; and

wherein in a parking state, the motor power shaft is configured to rotate together with one of the input shafts to drive a first motor generator to generate electric power; and

wherein the plurality of input shafts comprise a first input shaft and a second input shaft coaxially fitted over the first input shaft, and the plurality of output shafts comprise a first output shaft and a second output shaft parallel to the first and second input shafts respectively; and

wherein the shift driving gears on the plurality of input shafts comprise;

a first-gear driving gear disposed on the first input shaft, a second-gear driving gear disposed on the second input shaft, a third-gear driving gear disposed on the first input shaft, a fifth-gear driving gear disposed on the first input shaft, and a fourth-sixth-gear driving gear disposed on the second input shaft; and

wherein the shift driven gears on the plurality of output shafts comprise;

a first-gear driven gear, a second-gear driven gear, a third-gear driven gear, and a fourth-gear driven gear disposed on the first output shaft, a fifth-gear driven gear and a sixth-gear driven gear disposed on the second output shaft; and

wherein a first-third gear synchronizer disposed between the first-gear driven gear and the third-gear driven gear, a second-fourth gear synchronizer disposed between the second-gear driven gear and the fourth-gear driven gear, and a fifth-sixth gear synchronizer disposed between the fifth-gear driven gear and the sixth-gear driven gear.

2. The transmission unit according to claim 1, further comprising an output unit synchronizer configured to synchronize the output unit with the one or the different one of the output shafts.

3. The transmission unit according to claim 2, wherein the output unit synchronizer is disposed on the one or the different one of the output shafts and configured to engage with the output unit.

4. The transmission unit according to claim 2, wherein the motor power shaft is configured to rotate together with the one of the output shafts via a gear pair.

5. The transmission unit according to claim 4, further comprising a motor power shaft gear fixed on the motor power shaft, and a generator gear fixed on the one of the output shafts and to mesh with the motor power shaft gear.

6. The transmission unit according to claim 1, wherein the output unit comprises an output idler gear fitted over the one or the different one of the output shafts.

7. The transmission unit according to claim 1, wherein the reverse synchronizer and an output unit synchronizer are configured to share a shift fork mechanism;

wherein the output unit synchronizer is in a disengaged state when the reverse synchronizer synchronizes the reverse output gear with the reverse idler gear;

wherein the reverse synchronizer is in a disengaged state when the output unit synchronizer synchronizes the output unit with one of the output shafts.

8. The transmission unit according to claim 1, wherein the reverse idler gear being a third reverse idler gear, wherein the transmission unit further comprises:

a first reverse idler gear configured to mesh with the one of the shift driving gears; and

a second reverse idler gear configured to rotate together with the first reverse idler gear;

wherein the third reverse idler gear is configured to mesh with the second reverse idler gear; and

wherein the reverse synchronizer is configured to selectively synchronize the reverse output gear with the third reverse idler gear.

9. The transmission unit according to claim 8, wherein the reverse output gear is coaxially arranged with the third reverse idler gear;

wherein the reverse synchronizer is disposed on one of the reverse output gear and the third reverse idler gear and to engage with the other of the reverse output gear and the third reverse idler gear.

10. The transmission unit according to claim 9, wherein the reverse synchronizer is disposed on the reverse output gear.

11. The transmission unit according to claim 8, wherein the first reverse idler gear and the second reverse idler gear are formed as an integrated joint gear structure.

12. The transmission unit according to claim 1, further comprising a fixed output gear fixed on another one of the output shafts.

13. The transmission unit according to claim 12, wherein the output unit, the fixed output gear and the reverse output gear are configured to mesh with a shift driven gear of a main reducer of the vehicle.

14. The transmission unit according to claim 1, wherein the reverse idler gear is configured to mesh with the second-gear driving gear;

wherein a generator gear is fixed on the second output shaft;

wherein the output unit is fitted over the second output shaft.

15. A power transmission system for the vehicle, comprising:

the transmission unit according to claim 1; and

the first motor generator configured to rotate together with the motor power shaft of the transmission unit.

16. A vehicle comprising the power transmission system for the vehicle according to claim 15.

17. A power transmission system for the vehicle, further comprising:

the transmission unit according to claim 1;

an engine; and

a dual clutch comprising;

an input terminal connected with the engine, a first output terminal coupled with the first input shaft, and a second output terminal coupled with the second input shaft.