US 11,945,292 B2
Electric drive axle of a vehicle
Kim Führer, Lindau (DE); Stephan Demmerer, Wasserburg (DE); Matthias Winkel, Weingarten (DE); Johannes Winkler, Tettnang (DE); and Martin Ruider, Schwarzhofen (DE)
Assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/289,508
Filed by ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/079685
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 28, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/089304, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 218 535.2 (DE), filed on Oct. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0394601 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. B60K 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 17/08 (2006.01); B60K 17/16 (2006.01); F16H 63/34 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 1/00 (2013.01) [B60K 17/08 (2013.01); B60K 17/16 (2013.01); F16H 63/3425 (2013.01); B60K 2001/001 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/91 (2013.01); F16H 2200/0021 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric drive axle of a vehicle comprising:
a parking lock;
at least one electric drive;
a drive shaft;
a drive gear of the drive shaft;
an output gear of a differential gear unit for driving at least one output shaft;
at least one intermediate gear of an intermediate shaft that couples the drive gear to the output gear; and
at least one claw shift element that decouples the at least one electric drive is associated with the drive shaft and/or with the intermediate shaft such that the at least one claw shift element is arranged upstream of the parking lock in a power flow direction from electric drive to differential gear unit,
wherein an axially displaceable shifting claw of the at least one claw shift element is arranged coaxial to the drive shaft and can be brought into engagement with a driving toothing of the drive shaft,
wherein a parking lock gear of the parking lock is an idler gear of the drive shaft and arranged to be brought into operative connection with a locking pawl of the parking lock, and wherein the at least one intermediate gear is a fixed gear of the intermediate shaft.