US 12,404,915 B2
Drive unit for a vehicle
Johannes Kaltenbach, Friedrichshafen (DE); Thomas Martin, Weissenberg (DE); Fabian Kutter, Kressbronn (DE); Johannes Glückler, Friedrichshafen (DE); Kai Bornträger, Langenargen (DE); and Stefan Renner, Bodman-Ludwigshafen (DE)
Assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
Filed by ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
Filed on Jun. 14, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/743,718.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2023 205 680.1 (DE), filed on Jun. 16, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0418244 A1, Dec. 19, 2024
Int. Cl. F16H 3/66 (2006.01); F16H 63/32 (2006.01)
CPC F16H 3/66 (2013.01) [F16H 63/32 (2013.01); F16H 2063/324 (2013.01); F16H 2200/0021 (2013.01); F16H 2200/2007 (2013.01); F16H 2200/2038 (2013.01); F16H 2200/2094 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A drive unit for a vehicle, comprising:
an electric machine; and
a shift gearbox with at least a first shift element, a second shift element, and two planetary gear sets coupled to one another;
wherein:
the first planetary gear set has a first sun shaft, a first ring gear shaft, and a first web shaft;
the second planetary gear set has a second sun shaft, a second ring gear shaft, and a second web shaft;
the second sun shaft can be driven by the electric machine, the second web shaft is set up as an output shaft, and the second ring gear shaft is non-rotatably connected to the first web shaft;
the first sun shaft is non-rotatably connected to a stationary component, the first shift element, in an actuated state, connects the first ring gear shaft to at least one element of the first planetary gear set and at least one element of the second planetary gear set; and
the second shift element, in an actuated state, connects the first ring gear shaft to the second sun shaft or the second web shaft in a rotationally fixed manner in order to shift a second gear.