Patent ID: 8720635

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: an engine having a crankshaft; a charging generator disposed on said crankshaft; a power-supplying generator driven by said engine and including a rotating shaft misaligned from said crankshaft; and a vehicle power generating apparatus including a clutch unit including a clutch disposed on said crankshaft, a driving gear disposed on said clutch, and a switching mechanism operable for driving said clutch, and a motion transmitting unit including a driven gear meshing with said driving gear, and an input shaft driven by said driven gear and connected to and co-rotatable with said rotating shaft of said power-supplying generator; wherein said motion transmitting unit further includes a shaft coupler for interconnecting said input shaft and said rotating shaft; wherein each of said input shaft and said rotating shaft has an externally splined end, and said shaft coupler includes a sleeve having two internally splined ends engaging respectively said externally splined ends of said input shaft and said rotating shaft, and a biasing spring disposed between and abutting against said sleeve and one of said input shaft and said rotating shaft for biasing said sleeve and said one of said input shaft and said rotating shaft away from each other.