Drive system for a motor vehicle

US5461289A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Adler · Schweinfurt, DE
• Hans-Jurgen Drexl · Schonungen, DE
• Dieter Lutz · Schweinfurt, DE
• Franz Nagler · Ottendorf, DE
• Martin Ochs · Schweinfurt, DE
• Stefan Schiebold · Schweinfurt, DE
• Hans-Joachim Schmidt-Brucken · Helmstedt, DE
• Wolfgang Thieler · Haßfurt, DE
• Michael Wagner · Bitburg, DE
• Holger Westendorf · Diez, DE
• Rainer Wychnanek · Madenhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 1994
• Grant date: Oct 24, 1995
• Expiry date: Jun 20, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S903/96
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The drive arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine (1) with at least one controlling element (29), an electric generator arrangement (3) driven by the internal combustion engine (1), at least one electric motor (11) which is powered by the generator arrangement (3) and drives the motor vehicle, and an electronic control unit (19) which, depending on the setting of an accelerator pedal (23), controls at least an actuating drive (27) and the electrical output generated by the generator arrangement (3) and/or the electrical output received by the electric motor (11). The arrangement contains a device for detecting an actual value of the speed of the internal combustion engine (1) and component for detecting an actual value of the electrical output generated by the generator arrangement (3). The control unit (19) has a speed regulating device (33) that maintains the actual speed at a given reference speed and an output regulating component (37) which maintains the actual electrical output at a given reference output. A data storage (31) in which performance data for combinations of data for the reference output with data for the reference speed and/or data…