Abstract:
A control system for controlling a vehicle includes a wheel speed indicator for each of at least two wheels of the vehicle, a vehicle speed indicator, and a processor programmed to include a validation unit. The validation unit performs a first test of a road grip condition of each wheel based on slip information of the vehicle. The vehicle speed indicator produces an instantaneous vehicle speed estimation based on at least one circumferential wheel speed indication ascertained by the validation unit of the processor.
Abstract:
Motorized hub for an electrically powered motor vehicle comprising a wheel hub mounted to rotate about a hub axis, and an electric traction unit comprising an external stator connected to a hub carrier and an internal rotor (31) whose axis of rotation is distant from the hub axis. The motorized hub comprises reduction means acting between shaft (33) of rotor (31), friction braking means, and a braking rotor secured to the hub. The reduction means comprise a drive pinion connected to the rotor (31) and a ring gear connected to the hub. A brake shaft passes through the hub carrier to connect the braking rotor to the hub. The reduction means comprise two reduction stages and the hub is mounted so that it can rotate via rolling-contact hub bearings positioned around a stub axle of the hub carrier, the brake shaft passing axially through a cavity of the stub axle.
Abstract:
A system for producing an estimation of the overall speed of a vehicle relative to the ground is described which comprises the generation of a measurement of the instantaneous road grip coefficient (μr) of at least one wheel (1) of a vehicle with electric traction wherein a rotary electric machine (2) is coupled to said wheel to drive it individually in traction and in braking. This system comprises an indicator of the torque applied at each instant to that wheel based on the measurement of the current (Ic) in the electric machine, an indicator of the instantaneous dynamic load on said wheel and a stage for calculating the instantaneous road grip coefficient of said wheel (1) relative to the ground based on the torque indicator and the dynamic load indicator in order to determine the ratio of the tangential force applied to the ground by the wheel under the action of said torque to the normal force applied to the ground by the wheel under the action of the dynamic load. One or more tests of the value of the duly calculated road grip coefficient are used to validate the ability of a measurement of the corresponding circumferential wheel speed to supply an adequate approximation of the speed of advance of the vehicle in the position of that wheel.
Abstract:
A motorized hub for electric powering of an axle of a hybrid drive automotive vehicle, said motorized hub comprising a hub designed to receive a wheel, the hub being mounted rotationally relative to a hub carrier about a hub axis, the motorized hub comprising an electric drive motor, the electric motor comprising an external stator connected to the hub carrier and an internal rotor whose axis of rotation is remote from the hub axis, the motorized hub comprising reduction means acting between the rotor of the electric motor and the hub, the motorized hub comprising coupling/uncoupling means capable of adopting a coupling position in which rotation of the electric motor is coupled to the rotation of the hub and an uncoupling position in which rotation of the electric motor is uncoupled from the rotation of the hub, the motorized hub being characterized in that the coupling/decoupling means are arranged between the reduction means and the hub.
Abstract:
A motorized hub (1) for an electric traction automobile vehicle, said motorized hub comprising a hub (9) adapted to receive a wheel (2), the hub being mounted to rotate relative to a hub-carrier (7) about a hub axis. The motorized hub comprises a traction electric machine having an external stator (32) fastened to the hub-carrier and an internal rotor (31) the rotation axis of which is spaced from the hub axis and parallel to said hub axis. The motorized hub comprises reduction means (6) operating between the rotor of the electric machine and the hub and friction braking means, the brake rotor (5) being fastened to the hub and disposed axially on the vehicle interior side relative to the reduction means. The shaft of the rotor (31) of the electric machine being placed radially outside the brake rotor and extending axially from the reduction means toward the interior of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A braking device including a dissipative braking system, an electric braking system, and a first actuating device combined with the dissipative braking system. A second actuating device is combined with the electric braking system and a position sensor is combined with the second actuating device. This second actuating device is designed to drive the first actuating device after a non-zero travel from its inactive position, and the sensor is designed to drive the electric brake system according to the displacement travel of the second actuating device from its inactive position.
Abstract:
A system for controlling the behaviour of a vehicle relative to the ground is described wherein the linear ground speed of a vehicle that has at least two wheels (1) each equipped with a sensor suitable for supplying a measurement that is a function of the rotation of said wheel is determined at each instant. The system comprises a circumferential speed indicator (101, 102) for each wheel (1) based on the measurement from the corresponding sensor (11) and a system for diagnosing characteristic parameters of the instantaneous condition of said wheels to validate the use of the circumferential speed Vr measured for each of these wheels to produce an estimation of the instantaneous speed Vv of the vehicle relative to the ground. The diagnostic system notably comprises a means (109) of diagnosing loss of road grip of a wheel as a function of its instantaneous acceleration, a means (107) of diagnosing the validity of the wheel speed indication based on a measurement of the road grip coefficient of the wheel and a means (113) of diagnosing the maintaining or restoration of road grip of the wheel as a function of a determination of its slip. A vehicle speed indicator (119) produces an estimation of the vehicle speed relative to the ground as a function of indications that are not rejected on completion of the diagnoses carried out. The invention also targets the application of this speed estimation system to the determination of the instantaneous slip when rolling of the wheels of a vehicle, each coupled to an individual electric machine and to the control of the torque applied to each of these wheels as a function of this slip to improve the behaviour of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A suspension assembly of a motor vehicle which assemble includes a wheel carrier and a guide member to guide the wheel carrier in relative translation. The wheel carrier is mounted on the guide member by means of a bar sliding in the guide member guided by rollers turning on roller ways arranged on the bar. The assembly includes a spiral spring acting between the bar of the wheel carrier and a guide member of an electromechanical machine that is operated to control the suspension deflection movements.
Abstract:
A wheel connecting assembly for an automobile which includes a wheel carrier and a support having a guide member for guiding the wheel carrier in translational movement relative to the support. The support has journals for mounting the support on the chassis of a vehicle. The wheel carrier is mounted on the guide member by means of a bar sliding in the guide member. The assembly includes a spring and an electromechanical device capable of being operated in order to control the deflecting movements of the suspension.
Abstract:
A motorized hub for electric powering of an axle of a hybrid drive automotive vehicle, said motorized hub comprising a hub designed to receive a wheel, the hub being mounted rotationally relative to a hub carrier about a hub axis, the motorized hub comprising an electric drive motor, the electric motor comprising an external stator connected to the hub carrier and an internal rotor whose axis of rotation is remote from the hub axis, the motorized hub comprising reduction means acting between the rotor of the electric motor and the hub, the motorized hub comprising coupling/uncoupling means capable of adopting a coupling position in which rotation of the electric motor is coupled to the rotation of the hub and an uncoupling position in which rotation of the electric motor is uncoupled from the rotation of the hub, the motorized hub being characterized in that the coupling/decoupling means are arranged between the reduction means and the hub.