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Electrical drive unit for a motor vehicle

US8866354B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Raphael Fischer · Schweinfurt, DE
Michael Bogner · Eckental, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 1, 2010
Grant date	Oct 21, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 12, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH02K5/10
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electrical drive unit for a motor vehicle, with the drive unit including a wheel-hub drive that drives a vehicle wheel and that is arranged on the vehicle wheel by a wheel bearing, the wheel-hub drive having a rotor and a stator. According to the invention, a sealing device is provided between the rotor and the stator, and/or between the rotor and a component adjacent to the rotor, and/or between the stator and a component adjacent to the stator. A sealing surface of the sealing device is arranged on a radius with the center point around a virtual tilt axis of the wheel bearing, or substantially along a tangent to the radius.

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