Electrohydraulic vehicle drive system

Claim 1

An apparatus comprising a rotatable hollow output shaft supported externally by bearings with one end of said output shaft being open for the reciprocatable input of a non rotatable worm screw gear operative to a hydraulic motor and to a first clutch mechanism and serving as a drive element to said output shaft with the other end of said output shaft serving as a first driven element operably connected to a second clutch mechanism arranged for operable connection to a second driven element with each said clutch mechanism having two separate inner connecting clutch disc plates arranged for selective engagement/disengagement to said worm screw gear and to said output shaft and said output shaft having fixed therein a first and a second counterbalanced flywheel each having an opening to its center for a slidable second hollow shaft connected therebetween and at each end to a bearing mounted freely rotatable clutch mechanism comprising a clutch disc plate fixed to a clutch drive plate with each said clutch disc plate arranged for engagement to and from rotation to said first flywheel and disengagement to said second flywheel and vice versa and said clutch drive plate having a square or rectangular gear opening to its center proportionate to the width and length and arcuately curved sides of a worm screw gear having a left hand screw pitch at one end and a right hand screw pitch at the other end and that can be reciprocatably driven to slidable bearings adapted inside said output shaft by said hydraulic motor for providing rotation to said square or rectangular gears and to said clutch drive plates, and to said clutch disc plates, and to said flywheels and thereby provide a single direction of rotation to said output shaft.

Claim 2

An apparatus comprising a rotatable hollow output shaft supported externally by bearings with one end of said output shaft being open for the reciprocatable input of a non rotatable worm screw gear operative to a hydraulic motor and to a first clutch mechanism and serving as a drive element to said output shaft with the other end of said output shaft serving as a first driven element operably connected to a second clutch mechanism arranged for operable connection to a second driven element with each said clutch mechanism having two separate inner connecting clutch disc plates arranged for selective engagement/disengagement to said worm screw gear and to said output shaft and said output shaft having fixed therein a first and a second counterbalanced flywheel each having an opening to its center for a slidable second hollow shaft connected therebetween and at each end to a bearing mounted freely rotatable clutch mechanism comprising a clutch disc plate fixed to a clutch drive plate with each said clutch disc plate arranged for engagement to and from rotation to said first flywheel and disengagement to said second flywheel and vice versa and said clutch drive plate having a square or rectangular gear opening to its center proportionate to the width and length and arcuately curved sides of a worm screw gear having a left hand screw pitch at one end and a right hand screw pitch at the other end and that can be reciprocatably driven to slidable bearings adapted inside said output shaft by said hydraulic motor for providing rotation to said square or rectangular gears and to said clutch drive plates, and to said clutch disc plates, and to said flywheels and thereby provide a single direction of rotation to said output shaft.

Claim 3

An apparatus comprising at least two separate rotatable and hollow output shafts each externally supported by bearings and with one end arranged as the drive element and the other end arranged as the driven element and having fixed therein at least one flywheel to each said shaft and each flywheel having an opening to its center and in rotatable working relationship to a cambered gear that comprises a round metal plate having a closed end with a square or rectangular gear opening to its center proportionate to the width and length and arcuately curved sides of a worm screw gear and with a groove in circumference to the center of its outer surface having slooping sides in which a series of bearings are positioned that are in working relationship to the inside circumference of said output shaft allowing for free forward or reverse rotational movement thereof when each of two worm screw gears, each having a different and single direction of screw pitch throughout its length, are driven reciprocatably by a common connection to a hydraulic motor causing each said worm screw gear to rotate one said cambered gear against one said flywheel thereby providing rotation to said output shaft and the second said cambered gear to rotate freely away from said second flywheel in disengagement thereof and vice versa.

Claim 4

An apparatus comprising at least two separate rotatable and hollow output shafts each externally supported by bearings and with one end arranged as the drive element and the other end arranged as the driven element and having fixed therein at least one flywheel to each said shaft and each flywheel having an opening to its center and in rotatable working relationship to a cambered gear that comprises a round metal plate having a closed end with a square or rectangular gear opening to its center proportionate to the width and length and arcuately curved sides of a worm screw gear and with a groove in circumference to the center of its outer surface having slooping sides in which a series of bearings are positioned that are in working relationship to the inside circumference of said output shaft allowing for free forward or reverse rotational movement thereof when each of two worm screw gears, each having a different and single direction of screw pitch throughout its length, are driven reciprocatably by a common connection to a hydraulic motor causing each said worm screw gear to rotate one said cambered gear against one said flywheel thereby providing rotation to said output shaft and the second said cambered gear to rotate freely away from said second flywheel in disengagement thereof and vice versa.