IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,305,738
Granted Patent B1
US 12,305,738 · App. 18/836,211 · Granted May 20, 2025

Electric drive unit for a motor vehicle

Inventors: Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, DE); Jonathan Zeibig (Aalen, DE); Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, DE); Carsten Gitt (Stuttgart, DE); Klaus Riedl (Tübingen, DE)
Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
F16H37/0806B60K1/02B60K17/046B60K17/165F16H48/06F16H48/10F16H48/11
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Patent No.
US 12,305,738
App. No.
18/836,211
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

An electric drive unit has a first electric engine with a first rotor, a second electric engine which with a second rotor, and a gear unit having a differential, which has exactly three first shafts arranged coaxially to each other. The three first shafts are a sum shaft to which the first rotor is connected in such a way that torques supplied by the first rotor can be introduced into the gear unit via the sum shaft, a first differential shaft coupled to a first vehicle wheel in such a way that torques can be discharged from the gear unit via the first differential shaft and transmitted onto the first vehicle wheel, and a second differential shaft coupled to a second vehicle wheel in such a way that torques can be discharged from the gear unit via the second differential shaft and transmitted onto the second vehicle wheel.

Claims (25)

1. An electric drive unit for a motor vehicle, the electric drive unit comprising:

a first electric engine having a first rotor;

a second electric engine having a second rotor;

a gear unit comprising

a differential having exactly three first shafts arranged coaxially to each other, wherein the exactly three first shafts are

a sum shaft to which the first rotor is connected in such a way that torques supplied by the first rotor are introducible into the gear unit via the sum shaft;

a first differential shaft coupled to a first vehicle wheel in such a way that torques are dischargeable from the gear unit via the first differential shaft and transmitted onto the first vehicle wheel; and

a second differential shaft coupled to a second vehicle wheel in such a way that torques are dischargeable from the gear unit via the second differential shaft and transmitted onto the second vehicle wheel;

a superimposed planetary gear set which has exactly three further shafts, wherein the exactly three further shafts are

a sun gear;

a planetary carrier connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the first differential shaft; and

an ring gear;

a first switching unit configured to couple the second rotor to the ring gear in such a way that torques supplied by the second rotor are introducible into the gear unit via the ring gear; and

a second switching unit configured to couple the second rotor to the sum shaft in such a way that torques supplied by the second rotor are introducible into the gear unit via the sum shaft,

wherein the sun gear is connected to the sum shaft in a rotationally fixed manner.

2. The electric drive unit of claim 1 , wherein the first switching unit is coupled to the second switching unit in such a way that the first and second switching units are switchable by a single actuator.

3. The electric drive unit of claim 1 , wherein the first rotor, the second rotor, and the gear unit are arranged coaxially to each other, wherein the first rotor, the second rotor, the first and second switching units, and the superimposed planetary gear set are arranged in the following sequence when viewed in an axial direction of the gear unit: 1) the first rotor, 2) the second rotor, 3) the first and second switching units, 4) the superimposed planetary gear set.

4. The electric drive unit of claim 1 , wherein the superimposed planetary gear set is arranged coaxially, axially overlapping and radially surrounding the differential.

5. The electric drive unit of claim 1 , further comprising:

a first planetary gear stage located between the first differential shaft and the first vehicle wheel with regard to a torque flow via which torques are transmittable from the first differential shaft onto the first vehicle wheel; and

a second planetary gear stage located between the second differential shaft and the second vehicle wheel with regard to a torque flow via which torques are transmittable from the first differential shaft onto the second vehicle wheel.

6. The electric drive unit of claim 1 , wherein the sum shaft is a second ring gear, the first differential shaft is a double planetary carrier, and the second differential shaft is a second sun gear.

7. The electric drive unit of claim 1 , further comprising:

a connection shaft connected to the sum shaft in a rotationally fixed manner and having at least one hollow shaft section, wherein a first force transmission area of the first switching unit and a second force transmission area of the second switching unit are arranged inside the hollow shaft section.

8. The electric drive unit of claim 7 , wherein the connection shaft is connected to a switching half of the second switching unit in a rotationally fixed manner.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2024
From: SCHILDER, TOBIAS; ZEIBIG, JONATHAN; HAERTER, TOBIAS; GITT, CARSTEN; RIEDL, KLAUS
To: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
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Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2022 000 463.1 · Feb 7, 2022 · national
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