Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Drive unit for hybrid vehicle
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Application No.: US15964949Application Date: 2018-04-27
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Publication No.: US10682904B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Takahito Endo , Hideaki Komada , Tatsuya Imamura , Kensei Hata , Akiko Nishimine
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@3e8121f
- Main IPC: B60K6/44
- IPC: B60K6/44 ; B60K6/445 ; F16H3/72 ; B60W10/06 ; B60W10/08 ; B60W10/115 ; B60W20/10 ; B60W30/18 ; B60W20/30 ; B60K6/365 ; B60K6/387 ; B60K6/38

Abstract:
A drive unit for a hybrid vehicle capable of improvement of fuel efficiency during HV running is provided. The drive unit includes an engine, a first motor, a second motor, a first planetary gear unit, a second planetary gear unit, a first engagement unit, and a second engagement unit. In a case where an operation state of the vehicle is high vehicle speed and a low driving force in which a requested driving force is small, by bringing the first engagement unit to an engaged state and the second engagement unit to the disengaged state, a first state where a gear ratio which is a rotation number ratio between an input element and an output element of a complex planetary gear unit becomes a first gear ratio γ2 smaller than “1” is set. In the case of a low vehicle speed and a high driving force in which the requested driving force is large, by bringing the second engagement unit to the engaged state and the first engagement unit to the disengaged state, a second state where the gear ratio becomes a second gear ratio γ1 larger than “1” is set.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180312050A1 DRIVE UNIT FOR HYBRID VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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