REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD

A system for moving items in a storage volume of a van, which may include one or more automatically controlled mechanical devices comprising one or more structures engageable with items within the storage volume, and a controller to control the one or more automatically controlled mechanical devices to engage with the items and to move the items within the storage volume.

A control system is provided for a vehicle that includes a plurality of vehicle corner modules (VCMs) which each comprise at least two of: a drive subsystem, a steering subsystem, and a braking subsystem. The control system comprises a network of VCM-controllers that are onboard and installed within a different respective VCM and that are operatively linked to each one of the subsystems of its respective VCM to receive therefrom sensor data and to regulate operation thereof in response to incoming signals received from outside its respective VCM. The control system provides a no-fault operating mode defined by the absence of a control-system fault, and a VCM-controller of a first VCM is programmed to control, when operating in the no-fault operating mode, at least one subsystem in a second VCM.

A suspension system for a vehicle platform comprises a control arm comprising an outboard portion and one or more inboard portions, and one or more eccentric bushings for linking the control arm to a frame of the vehicle platform. Each of the one or more bushings includes an annular outer sleeve seated in an opening of a respective inboard portion of the one or more inboard portions, an inner sleeve assembly nonconcentrically surrounded by the annular outer sleeve, for fixed coupling to the frame of the vehicle platform, and an elastomeric material bonded to both the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve assembly, the elastomeric material being at least partly deformable to absorb a torque applied thereto by the outer sleeve.

A vehicle chassis platform including: a frame having a front frame end, a rear frame end, a longitudinal frame axis, an upper frame surface, a bottom frame surface, a first longitudinal lateral frame surface and a second longitudinal lateral frame surface, wherein the upper frame surface is substantially flat; and two or more mechanical connectors each on one of the first and second longitudinal lateral surfaces, each of mechanical connectors to couple a vehicle corner module (VCM) to the frame and to transfer mechanical loads between the frame and the VCM when the VCM is on the frame.

A vehicle including a vehicle platform having a reference frame, the reference frame arranged along a longitudinal axis. A first vehicle corner module (VCM) is connected to one side of the reference frame and a second VCM is connected to an opposing side of the reference frame. The first and second VCMs are adapted for regulating motion of the vehicle. A sub-frame of at least one of the first VCM and the second VCM is disposed at a splay angle relative to the longitudinal axis.

A system for adaptive coupling of two structural members comprises a first eccentric hollow bush having a cylindrical outer surface and a cylindrical inner hole with an axis that is eccentric relative to the first-bush outer surface, and a second eccentric hollow bush having a cylindrical outer surface and a cylindrical inner hole having an axis that is eccentric relative to the second-bush outer surface. When the system is in an unlocked and assembled state, the second bush is disposed within the inner hole of the first bush such that its outer surface faces the first bush inner hole, the first bush is inserted in respective opposing fixturing holes of the two structural members such its outer surface faces the fixturing holes, and the first second bushes are respectively rotatable about the first and second eccentric axes.

A wheel drive assembly for transferring propelling torque from a source shaft to a wheel, the source shaft receiving torque from a motion actuator. The wheel drive assembly includes a wheel-hub, adapted to have the wheel mounted thereon, the wheel-hub being arranged about a longitudinal axis, which is adapted to coincide with a rotation axis of the wheel. The wheel drive assembly further includes a drive axle and a constant velocity (CV) joint mounted onto an outer end of the drive axle. The CV joint connects the drive axle to the wheel-hub. An outermost surface of the CV joint is disposed outwardly of an outermost surface of the wheel hub, along the longitudinal axis of the wheel-hub.

A gear casing for a wheel-hub assembly comprises a gear housing comprising a drive-gear volume for accommodating therewithin a gearing assembly that is positioned to mediate between a drivetrain member and a wheel-hub member, the drive-gear volume being in fluid communication with opposing first and second openings formed in the gear housing for respective gearing-assembly connections therethrough with the drivetrain member and the wheel hub member; and a lubricant compartment radially displaced from the drive-gear volume and in fluid communication therewith exclusively via an array of one or more lubricant passages disposed circumferentially around a portion of the gear housing, the lubricant-passage array arranged for flow therethrough of a gearing-assembly lubricant between the lubricant compartment and the gear housing.

A retractable console system for a vehicle, which may include: a control console; a linkage coupled to the control console; an actuator coupled to the linkage, the actuator may: lock the linkage and the control console coupled thereto in an operational position; and upon detection of an emergency, abruptly unlock and cause the linkage and the console coupled thereto to move from the operational position to a non-operational emergency position by releasing energy.

Vehicle corner modules (VCMs) connectable to a VCM-connection interface of a reference-frame of a vehicle platform, for regulating motion of a vehicle. When a wheel is mounted on a wheel-hub assembly of the VCM, a vehicle-connection interface of the VCM is disposed within a cylindrical footprint of the wheel. At least one of the at least one subsystem of the VCM is accommodated between the wheel-hub assembly and the vehicle-connection interface. Vehicle platforms are connectable to the VCMs. The connection of the vehicle platform to the VCM may include connection of subsystems of the VCM to electronic or flow subsystems mounted on the vehicle platform by connection of two portions of a multi-interface connection-element.