ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES

**Definition:** This place covers:

Particular arrangements or mounting in vehicles of:

**Glossary:** - Automatic control: Using control systems for automatizing or assisting, to a full- or partial extent, tasks associated with driving of the vehicle, e.g. those normally carried out by the driver or those necessary to control the motion of the vehicle. - Auxiliary equipment: A subsidiary or supplementary device of the propulsion, transmission or other units of the vehicle, e.g. a pump for supply of pressure for the control unit. - Conjoint Control: A programmed or condition-responsive automatic controller on-board the vehicle, embodying control logic for plural vehicle sub-units and sends control signals to actuators of two or more vehicle sub-units, so that the sub-units act together to solve a particular problem or in response to a particular driving condition. - Cruise control ACC: A system for automatically controlling vehicle speed, which may include additional functions e.g. control of distance between vehicles, so-called "Adaptive Cruise Control" (ACC). - Drive control system: An electronic system in a road vehicle for automatically controlling the movement of that vehicle in order to take certain actions. - Driving parameter: All input or output parameters of the road vehicle drive control systems, e.g. road specific parameters, driver or passenger related parameters, state variables of motion of the vehicle body or parameters related to the vehicle itself like load or weight of the vehicle - Hybrid vehicles HEV: Vehicles having two or more prime movers of more than one type for mutual or common propulsion, e.g. HEV: electrical and internal combustion motors, and that are either singularly or in combination used for propulsion of the vehicle. - Road vehicle: A motorised passenger vehicle normally under the control of a human driver for transportation on roads, e.g. an automobile, truck or bus - Drive-unit: Propulsion unit together with transmission, a "drive-unit" can additionally include the ultimate driven unit - Sub-Unit: One of the following vehicle systems: propulsion systems; clutch system; change-speed gearing system; system for distributing drive torque between front and rear axles; axle differential system; brake system; steering system or suspension system; energy storage means; fuel cells or other auxiliary equipments - Transmission: All propulsion parts linking propulsion units, e.g. engines, to ultimate propulsive elements, e.g. wheels - Vehicle: All vehicles except those restricted to one of the following types of vehicles: rail vehicles, waterborne vessels, aircraft, space vehicles, hand carts, cycles, animal-drawn vehicles, and sledges, which are covered by the relevant subclasses of B61 - B64 . Thus, the term "vehicle" includes:- vehicular characteristics which are common to more than one of the above listed types;- certain characteristics restricted to automobiles, road or cross-country trailers