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Granted Patent B2
US 12,427,850 · App. 17/782,484 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Electric truck

Inventors: Karthikeyan Premkumar (Tamil Nadu, IN); Aydogan Cakmaz (Kanagawa, JP); Pradeep Kumar Thimmaiyan (Tamil Nadu, IN); Manish Saxena (Tamil Nadu, IN); Karthikeyan Suryanarayanan (Tamil Nadu, IN); Gopinath Murugan (Tamil Nadu, IN)
Assignee: Daimler Truck AG
B60K7/0007B60G15/062B60K17/043B62D13/04B60K2007/0092
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Patent No.
US 12,427,850
App. No.
17/782,484
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electric truck includes drive units being provided to each of driving wheels on left and right sides of the electric truck, each of the drive units transmitting a driving force of a motor to each of the driving wheels, a body frame casing including a pair of mounting frame bodies extending in a vehicle width direction of the electric truck and being arranged apart in a vehicle front-rear direction and a pair of cross members connecting the pair of mounting frame bodies, and body-connecting parts connecting each of a vehicle front side and a vehicle rear side of each of the drive units arranged in a frame of the body frame casing to each of the mounting frame bodies. The pair of drive units are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in the vehicle width direction inside the frame of the body frame casing.

Claims (15)

1. An electric truck, comprising:

drive units being provided to each of driving wheels on left and right sides of the electric truck, each of the drive units transmitting a driving force of a motor to each of the driving wheels;

a body frame casing comprising a pair of mounting frame bodies extending in a vehicle width direction of the electric truck and being arranged apart in a vehicle front-rear direction and a pair of cross members connecting the pair of mounting frame bodies; and

body-connecting parts connecting each of a vehicle front side and a vehicle rear side of each of the drive units arranged in a frame of the body frame casing to each of the mounting frame bodies, the body-connecting parts being arranged in the frame of the body frame casing, wherein

the pair of drive units are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in the vehicle width direction inside the frame of the body frame casing.

2. The electric truck according to claim 1 , wherein each of the drive units comprises the motor, a reducer that reduces a rotation speed of the motor, a final gear that is coupled to the reducer and that transfers the driving force of the motor to the driving wheel, and a drive unit housing that integrally accommodates the motor, the reducer, and the final gear.

3. The electric truck according to claim 2 , further comprising an air suspension part disposed over the final gear in the drive unit housing.

4. The electric truck according to claim 1 , further comprising a steering gear part provided on the driving wheel and configured to be able to steer the driving wheel, wherein

a steering shaft having a steering center of the driving wheel is disposed equidistantly from each of the pair of mounting frame bodies.

5. The electric truck according to claim 4 , wherein the steering gear part is configured to be capable of steering the driving wheel up to 90° leftward and rightward on an assumption that a steering angle of the driving wheel under a state where the electric truck is traveling straight forward is 0°.

6. The electric truck according to claim 4 , further comprising a pair of hinge parts disposed one to each of a vehicle front side and a vehicle rear side of the steering gear part, wherein

the pair of body-connecting parts connect the steering gear part to the mounting frame body through the pair of hinge parts.

7. The electric truck according to claim 1 , wherein:

the electric truck is provided with double-tires constituting two of the driving wheels; and

the drive units transfer the driving force to the double-tires.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 6, 2023
From: DAIMLER AG
To: DAIMLER TRUCK AG
Reel/Frame 063872/0877 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 6, 2022
From: PREMKUMAR, KARTHIKEYAN; CAKMAZ, AYDOGAN; THIMMAIYAN, PRADEEP KUMAR; SURYANARAYANAN, KARTHIKEYAN; MURUGAN, GOPINATH
To: DAIMLER AG
Reel/Frame 060113/0867 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-010656 · Jan 27, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220410692A1 · Dec 29, 2022
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