Electric traction system and method

US8668035B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Clean Emissions Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Bill C. Bradley · Dallas, US
• Joel Craig Diehl · Austin, US
• Dan Harris · Salt Lake City, US
• Warner Allen Harris · Aurora, US
• Warner Olan Harris · Cerritos, US
• Peter Fredrick Nortman · Monrovia, US
• Wayne Turnbow · Centennial, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 8, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 11, 2014
• Expiry date: May 4, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49716
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A power exchange unit (PXU) is coupled to an existing manual transmission of a vehicle via a PTO port. An electric motor generator coupled to the PXU. A battery is electrically coupled to the motor generator for supplying power to propel the vehicle. A control unit is coupled to the motor generator and the battery and configured to switch operation of the vehicle between first and second modes, wherein in the first mode an internal combustion engine of the vehicle propels the vehicle, and in the second mode the motor generator propels the vehicle in a motoring mode.