Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
  • B62M—RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR SINGLE-TRACK CYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES
  • B62M6/00—Rider propulsion of wheeled vehicles with additional source of power, e.g. combustion engine or electric motor
  • B62M6/40—Rider propelled cycles with auxiliary electric motor
  • B62M6/55—Rider propelled cycles with auxiliary electric motor power-driven at crank shafts parts
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
  • B62K—CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE
  • B62K19/00—Cycle frames
  • B62K19/30—Frame parts shaped to receive other cycle parts or accessories
  • B62K19/34—Bottom brackets
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
  • B62M—RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR SINGLE-TRACK CYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES
  • B62M11/00—Transmissions characterised by the use of interengaging toothed wheels or frictionally-engaging wheels
  • B62M11/04—Transmissions characterised by the use of interengaging toothed wheels or frictionally-engaging wheels of changeable ratio
  • B62M11/14—Transmissions characterised by the use of interengaging toothed wheels or frictionally-engaging wheels of changeable ratio with planetary gears
  • B62M11/145—Transmissions characterised by the use of interengaging toothed wheels or frictionally-engaging wheels of changeable ratio with planetary gears built in, or adjacent to, the bottom bracket

Definitions

• the invention relates to a motor-gear unit for a bicycle according to the preamble of claim 1 and a drive unit of a bicycle.
• DE 697 29 61 1 T2 shows an auxiliary drive for a bicycle, in which a bottom bracket is arranged together with a motor and a transmission in a housing.
• a motor-gear unit can not be attached to an existing bottom bracket of the corresponding bicycle, but the bottom bracket must be made with the motor-gear unit and mounted on the frame of the bicycle. This disadvantage is given especially when retrofitting a bike with already mounted bottom bracket.
• the object of the invention is to provide a motor-gear unit in which a particularly simple installation on a bicycle or on its standard parts is possible.
• the motor-gear unit according to the invention is designed for a, preferably direct, attachment to a frame-fixed bottom bracket, in particular standard bottom bracket, a bicycle.
• the bottom bracket shell is between the engine-transmission unit and a chainring arranged. This is one
• Bottom bracket housing in particular standard bottom bracket, possible without this needs to be rebuilt or replaced. Furthermore, it is advantageous that no further attachment or receiving points for the motor-gear unit according to the invention are necessary on the frame.
• the motor-gear unit according to the invention is thus designed for attachment to a side facing away from at least one chainring of a bicycle side of the pedal bearing housing, in particular the standard bottom bracket of the bicycle.
• the invention thus preferably relates to standard bottom bracket, but also covers different bottom bracket.
• the engine-transmission unit is arranged on the left and the chainring to the right of the bottom bracket.
• the motor-gear unit is attached or flanged on its housing on the bottom bracket shell.
• the motor-gear unit is designed for mounting in accordance with the now widely used International Standard Chain Guide Mount (ISCG) on the standard bottom bracket.
• ISCG International Standard Chain Guide Mount
• the engine of the unit according to the invention is an electric motor.
• the electric motor may be an external rotor whose rotor comprises a stator. For a comparatively high torque can be generated. Or the electric motor may be an internal rotor whose stator comprises a rotor. For a comparatively good heat dissipation can be realized.
• the motor of the unit according to the invention may be an electronically commutated three-phase brushless synchronous motor.
• the motor of the unit according to the invention also be a particularly flat-build pancake or a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM).
• PMSM permanent magnet synchronous motor
• a preferred development of the motor-gear unit according to the invention has a torque sensor for detecting a torque of a drivable by a driver and / or the engine of the unit according to the invention crankshaft.
• an engine torque may be transmitted to the crankshaft by the motor of the unit according to the invention in dependence on the torque detected by the torque sensor.
• This engine torque may be assistive or alone acting on the crankshaft.
• a particularly finely tuned supplementation or addition of engine torque to the torque applied by the driver is possible if the engine torque can also be regulated during one revolution of the crankshaft as a function of its torque applied by the driver. This can be equalized fluctuations or systematic irregularities of the torque applied by the driver.
• a particularly finely controlled addition or addition of engine torque to the torque applied by the driver is also possible if the engine torque can be regulated as a function of a rotational angle of the crankshaft. Thus, systematic irregularities due to the different efficiency of the cranks can be equalized. Since usually the rotational speed of the electric motor is greater than that of the crankshaft of the bicycle, it is preferred if the transmission is a reduction gear. In a first preferred variant, the reduction gear is a cycloidal gear.
• the cycloidal gear has two mutually offset cycloidal disks and correspondingly two staggered eccentric.
• its drive block toothing is formed on the ring gear and fixed on the ring gear on the housing and not rotating, while a plurality of bolts of the cycloidal gear can be driven via at least one cycloidal disc.
• cycloidal drive its bolts are fixed to the housing and are not rotating, while the ring gear can be driven via its drive shaft toothing and via the at least one cycloidal disk.
• the reduction gear is a single-stage or multi-level planetary gear.
• the reduction gear is a harmonic drive gear, in particular a Gleitkeilgetriebe or stress wave gear.
• the reduction gear has a reduction of at least 3/1.
• a bottom bracket is integrated in or on the motor-gear unit according to the invention.
• the standard bottom bracket shell can conform to International Standard for Bottom Bracket Shells (BB30). This bearings can be omitted.
• the drive unit according to the invention is provided for a bicycle and has a bottom bracket shell, in particular a standard bottom bracket shell. On a first side of the bottom bracket, a motor-gear unit described above is attached, while on a second - the first side opposite - side of the bottom bracket one or more chainrings are arranged.
• the invention thus preferably relates to standard bottom bracket, but also covers different bottom bracket.
• Figure 1 shows a first embodiment of a motor-gear unit according to the invention in a sectional view.
• Figure 2 shows a second embodiment of the motor-gear unit according to the invention in a view.
• Figure 3 shows the second embodiment of the motor-gear unit according to the invention in a sectional view.
• FIG. 4 shows an electric motor of a third embodiment of the motor-gear unit according to the invention in a schematic perspective view.
• FIG. 1 shows a first exemplary embodiment of an engine
• the crankshaft 34 is mounted in the bottom bracket shell 1 via bottom brackets, of which only one bottom bracket 32 is shown in the figure.
• an electric motor is arranged in the lower region (in FIG. 1), which is designed as an external rotor.
• a reduction gear is arranged, which is designed as a cycloidal gear.
• the electric motor has a stator holder 3 fastened to the housing 4 or to the bottom bracket 1, which carries a stator 2, on whose outer circumference a multiplicity (for example 28) of permanent magnets are arranged. Of the permanent magnets only two opposing permanent magnets 14a, 14b are shown in the figure.
• a plurality of projections and recesses are uniformly distributed, so that a uniform waveform is formed on the respective outer periphery of the two cycloidal disks 15a, 15b.
• comparable projections and recesses are formed on the inner circumference of the housing 4 . In this case, the number of projections formed on the cycloidal disks 15a, 15b is 1 less than the number of recesses formed on the housing 4.
• the two eccentrics 17a, 17b are driven by the electric motor with comparatively high speed, wherein the two cycloidal disks 15a, 15b circumferentially about their projections formed on the outer circumference around the recesses formed on the inner circumference of the housing 4 plunge.
• the cycloidal disks 15a, 15b perform a comparatively slow rotation.
• a plurality of driving pins, of which only four driving pins 16a-d are shown in the figure, are received in corresponding passage recesses of the cycloidal disks 15a, 15b, of which only two through-holes are shown in the figure.
• the driving pins 16a-d and the recesses are arranged on a circular path, wherein the diameter of the driving pins 16a-d are smaller than the diameter of the recesses.
• the rotation of the cycloidal disk 15a, 15b is transmitted via their recesses and via the driving pins 16a-d to a driver 28, which is non-rotatably connected to the crankshaft 34.
• the double cycloidal disk transmission shown forms a reduction gear that reduces the comparatively high rotational speed of the rotor 13 into the comparatively low rotational speed of the crankshaft 34.
• the motor-gear unit according to the invention is arranged largely rotationally symmetrical to the crankshaft 34 and attached to the above-described bottom bracket 1 housing with ISCG recording.
• FIG. 2 shows a drive unit with a second embodiment of the motor-gear unit according to the invention in a view.
• a housing 104 of the engine Transmission unit is attached to a bottom bracket shell 101 via a connection conforming to the International Standard Chain Guide Mount (ISCG).
• the housing 104, together with an output cover 128 encapsulates the entire engine-transmission unit.
• the bottom bracket shell 101, the housing 104 and the output cover 128 are penetrated by a crankshaft 134, to whose (in Figure 2 upper and lower) end portions (not shown) cranks are attached.
• Figure 3 shows the drive unit with the second embodiment of the engine-transmission unit according to the invention in a sectional view
• the crankshaft 134 is mounted in the bottom bracket housing 101 via two bottom bracket, of which only one bottom bracket 132 is shown in the figure.
• an electric motor is arranged, which is designed as an internal rotor. It has a stator 102 which is fixed to the housing 104.
• the electric motor further has a rotor 1 13, are arranged on the outer circumference of permanent magnets, of which in Figure 3, only two opposing permanent magnets 1 14a, 1 14b are shown.
• a cycloidal gear is arranged at the side facing away from the bottom bracket shell 101 of the electric motor (in Figure 3 above). Its output to the crankshaft 134 via the slowly rotating output cover 128. Between the output cover 128 and a radial step of the crankshaft 134, a thrust washer is used.
• the output cover 128 is connected to a clutch encoder 136 via a trapezoidal thread such that the clutch encoder 136 is pushed onto a coupling cone 130 when the electric motor drives in the drive direction.
• the clutch 103, 136 is released when the electric motor is not driving and it is actively opened when the electric motor briefly turns backwards.
• the coupling cone 130 is rotatably connected to the crankshaft 134.
• a rotational reference 142 with two O-rings 142a, 142b is arranged between the clutch encoder 136 and a non-rotating portion of the housing 104.
• the rotor 1 13 is mounted on the portion of the housing 104 via a rotor bearing 144.
• On the rotor 1 13 two eccentric discs or eccentric 1 17a, 1 17b of the cycloidal gear are fixed, whose eccentricity or eccentricity are opposite to each other.
• the upper eccentric 1 17a is offset to the right
• the lower eccentric 1 17b is offset to the left to the left (each in the illustration of Figure 3).
• a cycloid disc 1 15a, 15b which comprises the eccentric member 17a, 17b is arranged and mounted on the eccentric member 17a, 17b via a respective cycloidal disc bearing 11a, 19b.
• a rack and pinion toothing is provided between each cycloidal disk 15a, 15b and the output cover 128, a rack and pinion toothing is provided.
• a plurality of projections and recesses are evenly distributed on the outer circumference of the respective cycloidal disk 15a, 15b, so that a uniform waveform is formed on the respective outer circumference of the cycloidal disk 15a, 15b.
• comparable projections and recesses are formed on the inner circumference of the housing 104 .
• the number of projections formed on the cycloidal disks 15a, 15b is smaller by one than the number of recesses formed on the housing 104.
• Uniformly fixed to the circumference of the stator 102 and rotatably held driving pins, of which only two driving pins 16a, 16b are shown in FIG. 1, are received in corresponding passage recesses of the cycloidal disks 15a, 15b, of which only two are shown in FIG Through holes are shown.
• the driving pins 16a, 16b and the recesses are arranged on a circular path, wherein the diameter of the driving pins 16a, 16b are smaller than the diameters of the recesses.
• the two eccentrics 1 17a, 17b are driven by the electric motor with comparatively high speed, wherein the two cycloidal discs 15a, 15b are circumferentially formed around their projections formed on the outer circumference Immerse the inner circumference of the housing 104 formed recesses.
• output cover 128 is driven relatively slowly by the cycloidal disks 15a, 15b.
• the output cover 128 can be rotatably connected to the crankshaft 134 via the clutch 130, 136.
• the double cycloidal disc transmission from a reduction gear which sets the comparatively high speed of the rotor 1 13 in the relatively low speed of the crankshaft 134.
• a shaft seal 138 tolerates a non-activated drive the crankshaft 134 via the engine-gear unit, a speed difference between the stationary output cover 128 and the rotating crankshaft 134, while activated drive a shaft seal 140 despite speed difference between the stationary housing 104 and the rotating output cover 128th seals these two housing parts.
• the second embodiment of the motor-gear unit according to the invention is arranged substantially rotationally symmetrical to the crankshaft 134 and secured to the above-described bottom bracket 101 with ISCG recording.
• Figure 4 shows an electric motor of a third embodiment of the motor-gear unit according to the invention in a schematic perspective view.
• the electric motor is particularly space-saving in the axial direction and can be provided instead of the electric motors according to FIG. 1 or according to FIG.
• a plurality of permanent magnets 246 is arranged in a steric manner, of which only the end faces on the outer circumference of the rotor 213 can be seen in FIG.
• a multiplicity of coils 248 is arranged in the form of a star, of which only the end sides on the outer circumference of a housing-fixed stator 202 can be seen in FIG.
• FIG. 5 shows a section of the stator 202 of the electric motor according to FIG. 4 with the multiplicity of coils 248 in a schematic view.
• the motor-gear unit according to the invention can also be provided in a handbike driven by the arm force of a handbik, wherein hand cranks are attached to the end sections of the crankshaft 34.
• a motor-gear unit for a bicycle directly to a bottom bracket shell, in particular standard bottom bracket shell, attached or flanged is.
• the standard bottom bracket shell is located between the engine-gearbox unit and a chainring.
• a frame-fixed part - in particular housing - the motor-gear unit can be fixed or flanged to the standard bottom bracket shell according to the International Standard Chain Guide Mount (ISCG).
• ISCG International Standard Chain Guide Mount

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