Patent ID: 6722459
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: B60K,B60L,Y02T

Abstract:
A vehicle wheel having a bridge (15) arranged beneath a wheel axle of the vehicle wheel, a drive engine (1) driving the wheel axle via at least one reduction gear (3), a housing (14) supporting the driving engine (1), the wheel axle driving a rim (10) of the vehicle wheel equipped with a brake (11), and the brake (11) facilitating braking of the rim when the brake is actuated;wherein the brake (11) is a disk brake which is substantially accommodated within the rim (10) and a gear wheel (2) of the driving engine (1) is spaced from the wheel axle; the at least one reduction gear (3) comprises a gear wheel (2) driven by the driving engine (1), the gear wheel (2) meshes directly with a ring gear (4) and also meshes with at least one intermediate gear wheel (16) which, in turn, drivingly meshes with one additional intermediate gear wheel (17), the one additional intermediate gear wheel (17) meshes with the ring gear (4) to supply additional drive to the ring gear (4), and the ring gear (4) supplies a drive output from the at least one reduction gear (3) to the rim; the housing (14) for the driving engine (1) has suspension elements for securing the wheel axle to a vehicle, and the housing (14) couples the rim (10) with the axle bridge (15).