Drive device for a vehicle axle of a two-track vehicle

US11059364B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

• Udo Pinschmidt · Gaimersheim, DE
• Steffen Hummel · Diez, DE
• Christian Wirth · Winterthur, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 18, 2018
• Grant date: Jul 13, 2021
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/62
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A drive device for a vehicle axle, especially a rear axle, of a two-track vehicle, wherein the vehicle axle comprises an axle differential, which can be connected at the primary end to a primary drive machine and can be connected at the output end across flange shafts arranged on either side to vehicle wheels of the vehicle axle, wherein the vehicle axle is associated with an additional drive machine and a shiftable superimposing gear, which can be shifted to a torque distribution gear in which a drive torque is generated by the additional drive machine, depending on the magnitude and direction of rotation of which a torque distribution on the two vehicle wheels can be changed, and shifted to a hybrid mode in which the drive torque generated by the additional drive machine can be coupled to both flange shafts of the vehicle wheels, evenly distributed across the axle differential.