Patent ID: 11872888
Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  F  Y | IPC B  F

Claim 12:
13. A drive system of a hybrid utility vehicle,
the drive system comprising:
an internal combustion engine including a crank shaft;
a continuously variable transmission including
an input shaft connected to the internal combustion engine,
an output shaft,
a driving pulley disposed at the input shaft,
a driven pulley disposed at the output shaft, and
a belt wound around the driving pulley and the driven pulley;

a drive train that connects the output shaft of the continuously variable transmission to a driving wheel;
an electric motor;
a branch train that connects the electric motor to the drive train such that power is transmitted from the electric motor to the drive train;
an engine clutch that cuts transmission of rotational driving power, which has been input from the electric motor through the branch train to the drive train, to the internal combustion engine, wherein
the branch train includes:
a propeller shaft that connects the drive train to a front wheel; and
a gear assembly that connects the electric motor to an intermediate portion of the propeller shaft.