Hybrid drive train for a hybrid-driven motor vehicle

• US 10,883,574 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2017
• Issued: 01/05/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Hummel, Steffen
• Primary Examiner(s): Joyce, William C
• Application Number:
  US16/344,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20190323579A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,169 Days
• Field of Search: 74661
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2006/4841 the gear provides shifting between multiple ratios
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/26 characterised by the motors or the generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/36 characterised by the transmission gearings
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/547 the transmission being a stepped gearing
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/11 Stepped gearings
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/30 Control strategies involving selection of transmission gear ratio control of change speed gearings, together with other vehicle sub-units B60W10/10; HEV transmission gearing B60K6/36; gearings and control thereof F16H
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0826 wherein at least one gear on the input shaft, or on a countershaft is used for two different forward gear ratios
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0933 with coaxial countershafts
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/0052 the gear ratios comprising six forward speeds
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/093 with two or more countershafts
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/725 with means to change ratio in the mechanical gearing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles

Abstract

A hybrid drive train for a hybrid-driven vehicle. A transmission which can be shifted into different transmission stages by shifting elements and which can be drivingly connected to an internal combustion engine via an internal combustion engine shaft, to an electric machine via an electric machine shaft, and to at least one vehicle axle via an output shaft. The internal combustion engine shaft and a takeoff shaft, which is drivingly connected to the output shaft, can be connected together via spur gear sets which can be shifted by means of the shifting elements, each spur gear set forming a gear plane, of which at least one hybrid gear plane can additionally be connected to the electric machine shaft.

Claims

1. A hybrid drive train for a hybrid-driven vehicle, comprising:

a transmission which can be shifted into different transmission stages by shifting elements and which can be drivingly connected to an internal combustion engine via an internal combustion engine shaft, to an electric machine via an electric machine shaft, and to at least one vehicle axle via an output shaft, wherein the internal combustion engine shaft and a takeoff shaft, which is drivingly connected to the output shaft, can be connected together via spur gear sets which can be shifted by the shifting elements, each spur gear set forming a gear plane, of which at least one hybrid gear plane can additionally be connected to the electric machine shaft, wherein the hybrid gear plane is part of a sub-transmission which has shifting elements, by which the sub-transmission can be decoupled from the drive train or can be coupled thereto during operation of the transmission, wherein the hybrid gear plane has a takeoff-side gear wheel arranged on the takeoff shaft, a drive-side gear wheel arranged on the internal combustion engine shaft, and an electric machine-side gear wheel, and wherein the electric machine-side gear wheel is rotatably mounted as a loose gear wheel coaxially on the electric machine shaft, and a non-powershift synchronization can be decoupled from the electric machine shaft or can be coupled thereto by a first shifting element, and in that the takeoff-side gear wheel of the at least one hybrid gear plane, which is arranged on the takeoff shaft, is a loose gear wheel which can be coupled to the takeoff shaft or can be coupled thereto by a second shifting element, and/or in that the drive-side gear wheel of the hybrid gear plane, which is arranged on the internal combustion engine shaft, is a loose gear wheel which can be coupled to the internal combustion engine shaft by a third shifting element, wherein the sub-transmission has exactly two hybrid gear planes and wherein the first shifting element arranged on the electric machine shaft can be shifted on both sides and is arranged in an axial direction between the loose gear wheel of each of the two hybrid gear planes, wherein, in a neutral position, the first shifting element is decoupled from the two hybrid gear planes, and the first shifting element either couples the loose gear wheel of the first hybrid gear plane to the electric machine shaft in a first shifting position or it couples the loose gear wheel of the second hybrid gear plane to the electric machine shaft in a second shifting position, wherein the two hybrid gear planes are components of the sub-transmission which can be immobilized during the operation of the transmission, that is to say decoupled from the drive train, and wherein, in the sub-transmission, the drive-side loose gear wheels of the two hybrid gear planes, arranged on the internal combustion engine shaft, are arranged together in a rotationally fixed manner on a hollow shaft which is rotationally mounted coaxially on the internal combustion engine shaft and which can be coupled to the internal combustion engine shaft via exactly the third shifting element.

2. The drive train according to claim 1, wherein the second shifting element arranged on the takeoff shaft can be shifted on both sides and is arranged in an axial direction between the takeoff side loose gear wheel of each of the two hybrid gear planes, wherein the shifting element either couples the takeoff-side loose gear wheel of the first hybrid gear plane to the takeoff shaft in a first shifting position or couples the takeoff-side loose gear wheel of the second hybrid gear plane to the takeoff shaft in a second shifting position.

3. The drive train according to claim 1, wherein the electric machine shaft is free of fixed gear wheels, arranged in a rotationally fixed manner thereon, of the spur gear sets forming the gear planes.

4. The drive train according to claim 1, wherein the takeoff shaft is connected via a spur gear stage to the output shaft and in that all the gear planes are arranged in the axial direction between the spur gear stage and the electric machine, and/or in that the at least one hybrid gear plane is arranged directly adjacently on the electric machine.

5. The drive train according to claim 1, wherein the electric machine is connected on a takeoff side and wherein, for the takeoff-side connection of the electric machine, an electric machine-side gear wheel of the at least one hybrid gear plane meshes with a takeoff-side loose gear wheel rotationally mounted on the takeoff shaft.

6. The drive train according to claim 1, wherein the electric machine is connected on a drive side and wherein, for the drive-side connection of the electric machine, an electric machine-side gear wheel of the at least one hybrid gear plane meshes with a drive-side loose gear wheel rotationally mounted on the internal combustion engine shaft.