US 12,246,586 B2
Electric axle arrangement and drive train for a motor vehicle having an electric axle arrangement of this kind
Lukas Legl, Graz (AT)
Assigned to MAGNA Powertrain GmbH & Co KG, Lannach (AT)
Appl. No. 18/015,146
Filed by MAGNA Powertrain GmbH & Co KG, Lannach (AT)
PCT Filed May 7, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/062170
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 9, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/012797, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 20, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 208 725.3 (DE), filed on Jul. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0249529 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 11/02 (2006.01); B60K 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 1/00 (2013.01) [B60K 11/02 (2013.01); B60K 2001/001 (2013.01); B60K 2001/006 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric axle arrangement for a drive train of a motor vehicle, comprising
a drivable axle,
an electric machine, wherein the axle is or can be drivingly connected to the electric machine,
a coolant sump with liquid coolant and
an elevated tank, wherein the liquid coolant is delivered from the coolant sump into the elevated tank,
wherein the elevated tank is selectively fluidically connected to a cooling system for cooling the electric machine via a switchable valve.