US 12,257,905 B2
Electric vehicle
Osami Ohno, Aki-gun (JP); Satoshi Maruyama, Aki-gun (JP); Hiroshi Tanaka, Aki-gun (JP); Kei Yonemori, Aki-gun (JP); Akihiro Furukawa, Aki-gun (JP); Li-Hsuan Huang, Taichung (TW); Chih-Yuan Chen, Taichung (TW); and Iou-Uei Jang, Taichung (TW)
Assigned to Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/062,730.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-207734 (JP), filed on Dec. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0191893 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 6/44 (2007.10); B60K 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60K 6/24 (2007.10); B60K 6/26 (2007.10); B60K 6/28 (2007.10); B60L 50/10 (2019.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01)
CPC B60K 6/44 (2013.01) [B60K 1/00 (2013.01); B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60K 6/24 (2013.01); B60K 6/26 (2013.01); B60K 6/28 (2013.01); B60L 50/10 (2019.02); B60L 50/66 (2019.02); B60K 2001/0405 (2013.01); B60Y 2400/20 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric vehicle including:
A drive motor that drives the vehicle by using electric power;
a reduction drive that reduces power from the drive motor and outputs the reduced power;
a generator that generates the electric power to be supplied to the drive motor; and
an engine body that drives the generator and is configured to transmit output of the reduction drive to a drive wheel, wherein
the drive motor, the reduction drive, the generator, and the engine body are integrally arranged in this order in a vehicle width direction of a power unit compartment such that respective heights thereof are substantially the same,
an electric power conversion unit, in which a motor inverter, an electric power generation inverter, and a DC/DC converter are integrated, is arranged above the drive motor, the reduction drive, and the generator, and
engine-related components are arranged above the engine body.