Drive for pivoting a flap arranged on a body of a vehicle about a pivot axis

US7357751B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Stabilus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Michael Kleinmann · Melsbach, DE
• Andreas Ritter · Haiger, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 2005
• Grant date: Apr 15, 2008
• Expiry date: May 21, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H1/28
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A drive for pivoting a flap on a body of a vehicle about a pivot axis, with a drive motor, by means of which an output driving the flap pivotably can be driven rotatably via a drive train having an epicyclic gear. The epicyclic gear has a sun gear, an internally toothed rim, a planet gear which is in engagement with the sun gear and the internally toothed rim, and a planet carrier which carries the planet gear and which is connected fixedly in terms of rotation to a shaft coaxial with respect to the axis of rotation of the planet carrier. The rotational movement of a component of the epicyclic gear can be braked by a brake. In particular, the brake can stop the rotational movement of the internally toothed rim, the sun gear can be driven rotatably by the drive motor, and the shaft of the planet carrier can form the output.