Motor vehicle with lowered piston engine

US7089820B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Jurgen Huter · Rutesheim, DE
• Bernhard Jutz · Feldkirch, AT
• Johannes Leweux · Eßlingen, DE
• Dieter Nowak · Herne, DE
• Hubert Schnübke · Stuttgart, DE
• Alexander Von Gaisberg-Helfenberg · Beilstein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 23, 2004
• Grant date: Aug 15, 2006
• Expiry date: Nov 9, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/19233
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a motor vehicle engine and transmission support arrangement at the front end of a motor vehicle wherein the engine has a drive shaft with a drive wheel mounted thereon, and a torque converter unit with an input shaft and an input wheel mounted on the input shaft which is vertically displaced from the output shaft of the engine a power transmission structure is disposed between the drive wheel of the engine and the input wheel of the torque converter unit for transmitting the engine power to the torque converter unit.