Abstract: A vehicle body structure including an ornamental member attached to an outer surface of an outer edge portion of a door, wherein the ornamental member includes an attachment portion pasted to the outer surface by a pasting unit, and a parallel surface that extends from the attachment portion outward with respect to the outer edge portion and is parallel to the outer surface.

Abstract: Multilayer sound attenuating trim part for a vehicle, in particularly for a trim part or cladding used in the interior of a car, for instance as an inner dash or as part of the floor covering or for the exterior of a vehicle, for instance as a trim part or cladding in the engine bay area or as part of an under body trim part as well as to the method of producing a part, comprising at least two fibrous layers (10, 30) and at least one air permeable intermediate film layer (20) between the at least two fibrous layers, whereby all layers together have a variable thickness.

Abstract: An acoustical absorber, which may take the form of a shock tower insulator, includes a body made from a sound insulating material and one or more serrated washers fixed to the body. The washers function to retain the body to mounting studs without the need for using a separate fastener.

Abstract: Provided is a wiring structure that can manage a protruding length of a led-out portion of an electrical wire so as to be constant. The wiring structure includes: a wiring member that is made of resin and has a wiring surface; and an electrical wire that includes a portion routed along the wiring surface and a portion led out from the wiring surface, the portion led out having an end portion to which a connector is to be attached. A positioning/fixing portion is provided integrally with the wiring member at a position in the vicinity of a lead-out position on the wiring surface of the wiring member, the electrical wire being led out from the lead-out position.

Abstract: A cable includes a plurality of electric wires, and a tape member spirally wound around an assembled article that is formed by twisting the plurality of electric wires. The thickness of the tape member is not less than 0.028 mm and not more than 0.090 mm, a width of the tape member is not less than 18 mm and not more than 35 mm, the tape member is spirally wound with an overlap of not less than ¼ and not more than ½ of the width thereof, and a tensile strength of the tape member is different between the longitudinal direction and the width direction and is smaller in the width direction than in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A branch structure includes a trunk-line harness in which a plurality of trunk lines including a routing member having a rod conductor are disposed in parallel, a branch-line harness that has a plurality of branch lines, and a connection terminal that electrically connects the branch line to the trunk line by being joined to the trunk line. The connection terminal includes a connection plate portion which has a width dimension smaller than the width of the trunk line, and is joined in a state of being in surface contact with an outer peripheral surface of the rod conductor in the trunk line, and the connection plate portion is joined to the trunk line at a position where the connection plate portion is orthogonal to an arrangement direction of the trunk lines.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems for providing a pathway for at least one electrical conductor to supply current from a vehicle or marine craft power source to a steering wheel comprising at least one working element for heating or controls. The present invention utilizes a brush and slip ring assemblies inside a hub for infinite rotation of the steering wheel while still maintaining a path for current to travel through the hub to the wheel.

Abstract: An electronics installation system, especially for an aircraft or spacecraft, includes at least one mechanical installation structure having a plurality of installation slots each configured to receive an electronic module and at least one wiring configuration slot configured to receive a wiring configuration module, and a connection matrix comprising a plurality of data connections, wherein at least one data connection is provided between each one of the installation slots and at least one wiring configuration slot.

Abstract: A vehicle system includes a main control electronic control unit configured to acquire an operating rate of each of a plurality of applications arranged in at least one of a plurality of electronic control units, calculate a plurality of arrangement patterns in which the applications are arranged in the electronic control units, calculate, based on the operating rate of each of the applications, a total electric power consumption of the electronic control units when each of the arrangement patterns is implemented, and arrange the applications in at least one of the electronic control units in the arrangement pattern that has the least total electric power consumption among the arrangement patterns.

Abstract: An adjustment bracket used to adjust a space between a first part and a second part is provided. The adjustment bracket comprises a cylindrical adjustment body including a first disc and a second disc. The first and the second discs are formed by cutting the adjustment body into two equal halves along a slanted surface. The first disc and the second disc are capable of counter rotating at an equal amount at an opposite direction, and the adjustment body has a substantially same thickness around its circumference at a home position, and has a varied thickness when the first and second discs rotates along a central axis away from the home position.

Abstract: A vehicle front passenger seat airbag device includes a plurality of inflators, an airbag, and a controller. The airbag includes a front passenger seat airbag, and a center airbag that includes a vehicle-rear-side end that projects out further toward a vehicle rear side when inflated and deployed than a rear end of the front passenger seat airbag when inflated and deployed. The controller controls timings for igniting each squib included in the plurality of inflators such that a peak internal pressure of the airbag inflated and deployed when an oblique collision or small overlap collision has occurred is delayed, compared to a peak internal pressure of the airbag inflated and deployed when a head-on collision has occurred.

Abstract: A load detector is capable of detecting a load placed on a seat. A temperature detector is capable of detecting a temperature and located adjacent to the load detector. A correction controller corrects the load detected by the load detector in such a way as to deduct a time change amount of the load from the detected load when a time change amount of the temperature detected by the temperature detector is larger than a predetermined threshold value of the time change amount of the temperature and the time change amount of the load detected by the load detector is smaller than a predetermined threshold value of the time change amount of the load. A determination controller determines a sitting condition on the seat based on the corrected load.

Abstract: A capacitive vehicle seat occupancy detection and classification system includes an impedance measurement circuit and a control and evaluation unit. The impedance measurement circuit is configured for providing periodic electrical measurement signals to a capacitive sensor of N different fundamental frequencies, wherein N is a natural number of at least 3, and to determine a complex impedance from each of determined sense currents in the capacitive sensor. The control and evaluation unit is configured to determine a seat occupancy class for each one of the complex impedances determined at the at least N different fundamental frequencies, and to determine a final seat occupancy class derived by a majority decision among the determined seat occupancy classes.

Abstract: A device for providing an activation voltage for a safety unit for a vehicle. The device includes a supply terminal for applying a first supply voltage potential, an activation terminal for outputting the activation voltage, and a control terminal for reading in a control signal. In addition, the device includes a pass-through switch that is connected between the supply terminal and the activation terminal, a first control switch, a second control switch, and a third control switch that includes a control input that is connected to the control terminal.

Abstract: An impact absorber to be mounted between a vehicular panel and a vehicular interior part covering the vehicular panel from a vehicular interior side includes an opposite wall to be opposite the vehicular panel, outer walls extending from edges of the opposite wall toward a vehicular interior side, and an extended wall extending from the opposite wall toward the vehicular interior side and having a side edge connected to the one outer wall, and the extended wall having a thickness that is increased from a vehicular interior end thereof toward a vehicular exterior end thereof, and the extended wall having a cutout hole that is open toward a vehicular exterior side.

Abstract: An inflatable airbag system can be configured to be mounted to a frontal region of a vehicle. The inflatable airbag system can include an inflatable airbag cushion that can expand and deploy out of a first housing, and an inflatable support member that can expand and deploy out of a second housing. The inflatable support member can contact and urge a portion of the inflatable airbag cushion in a car-rearward direction.

Abstract: A rail for supporting a glove box assembly and airbag canister includes a substantially planar body having an upper and lower surface, the upper surface defining a plurality of ribs. The rail further includes a wall projecting from at least a portion of an outer periphery of the lower surface, a first plurality of connection points configured to couple an airbag canister to the rail, and a second plurality of connection points configured to couple a glove box assembly to the rail. The rail further includes a first appendage extending from a first end of the body and a second appendage extending from a second end of the body, the first and second appendages configured to couple the rail to a dashboard assembly. The rail is integrally formed as a single component.

Abstract: An airbag assembly for a vehicle that includes a housing, an airbag supported by the housing, a deflector pivotally coupled to the housing, and a lock between the deflector and the housing. The lock is moveable relative to the deflector and the housing from an unlocked position disengaged with at least one of the deflector and the housing to a locked position engaged with both the deflector and the housing. The deflector may allow the airbag to deploy, without deflecting the airbag in response to one type of sensed impact, e.g., a full-width frontal impact, and may deflect the airbag in response to another type of sensed impact, e.g., oblique frontal impact.

Abstract: An air bag device has an air bag body, a retainer, a lid member. The retainer has an inner space and a flange portion. The lid member has a base portion and a door portion. An opening portion has a shape with a pair of opposite sides which are facing each other. A dimension in the parallel direction to the opposite side is larger than a dimension in the orthogonal direction to the opposite side. The flange portion has longer side portions and shorter side portions. The longer side portions are fixed on the lid member with a fastening and fixing member in a fastened and fixed portion. The shorter side portions are positioned at the lid member in an engaging portion. The engaging portion has an engaging member, and an engaging hole into which the engaging member is inserted and engaged.

Abstract: Airbag assemblies are disclosed that include inflatable knee airbags. The knee airbags can include panel(s) forming a main chamber that provides a primary cushioning protection zone to a lower leg of a vehicle occupant. The knee airbags can further include an external chamber panel coupled to a rearward surface of an occupant-facing panel, external to the main inflatable chamber, to form an external chamber facing the occupant. Vent(s) through the occupant-facing panel can communicate inflation gas from the main chamber to the external chamber to fill a space between the vehicle and the lower leg of the occupant, and to control timing of inflation of the external chamber to cause it to inflate on lateral sides of the lower leg of the occupant to thereby limit lateral movement of the lower leg relative to the vehicle.

Abstract: An airbag includes on the rear plane a passenger protection portion for protecting a front seat passenger. The passenger protection portion includes a front-collision arresting plane for protecting a head of the passenger as he moves forward in the event of a frontal collision of the vehicle and an oblique-collision arresting plane that is disposed at least either on the left or on the right of the front-collision arresting plane in such a manner as to protrude rearward out of the front-collision arresting plane for protecting the head of the passenger as he moves diagonally forward in the event of an oblique or offset collision of the vehicle. The passenger protection portion further includes an arresting recess that is disposed between the front-collision arresting plane and oblique-collision arresting plane in such a manner as to be sunken forward for receiving and arresting the head of the passenger.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gas generator including, in a cylindrical housing, a combustion chamber which is filled with gas generating agents as a gas source, and a gas discharge port for discharging a gas generated by combustion of the gas generating agents, the combustion chamber including, an ignition device which includes an igniter and closes a first end opening of the cylindrical housing, a partition wall which closes a second end opening on the side axially opposite to the first end opening, and a perforated cylindrical body which is disposed in an inner space thereof; the igniter having an igniter main body which includes an ignition portion, and an igniter collar which surrounds and holds the igniter main body; the perforated cylindrical body being disposed such that a first end thereof surrounds the ignition portion of the igniter, and a second end thereof on the axially opposite side being located on the side of the partition wall; an inside space of the perforated cylindrical body bein

Abstract: A child restraint, in accordance with the present disclosure, includes a juvenile seat and a child-restraint harness. The child-restraint harness may be configured to move to make it easier for a caregiver to seat and unseat a child.

Abstract: A belt buckle feeder comprises a stationary base (12) adapted to be fixedly mounted to the vehicle and a carriage (14) movable to a retracted position and to an extended position vis-à-vis the base (12), which carriage is connected to a belt buckle (20) via an intermediate plate (22) provided between the belt buckle (20) and the carriage (14). The intermediate plate (22) is tightly connected to the belt buckle (20) and there is provided a positive guidance by which the intermediate plate (22) is pivoted during traversing to the extended position by a predetermined degree vis-à-vis the carriage (14) so that in addition to the traversing movement of the carriage (14) along a tilting direction (N) the belt buckle (20) reversibly tilts from a home position to an inclined position.

Abstract: A webbing take-up device includes a spool on which a webbing worn by an occupant is taken up, and a motor that includes a rotor with a rotation shaft and a motor housing covering part of the rotor, the rotor being urged toward one axial direction side of the rotation shaft with respect to the motor housing. The webbing take-up device further includes a second transmission mechanism that includes an A-gear fixed to the rotation shaft, and a B-gear meshed together with the A-gear and rotated by the A-gear being rotated toward one side together with the rotation shaft such that the spool is rotated. A helix angle of respective outer teeth of the A-gear is set such that an axial direction force toward the one axial direction side of the rotation shaft acts on the A-gear when the rotation shaft is rotated toward the one side.

Abstract: A system, configured to mount on an ownship vehicle, includes a transceiver configured to receive positioning signals and receive surveillance signals including surveillance data from a second vehicle and processing circuitry configured to determine a location of the ownship vehicle based on the positioning signals received by the transceiver and determine expected characteristics of the surveillance signals based on the surveillance data. The processing circuitry is further configured to compare the expected characteristics and actual characteristics of the surveillance signals received from the second vehicle and determine that the surveillance signals include a discrepancy indicative of false positioning signals in response to comparing the expected characteristics and the actual characteristics. The processing circuitry is configured to output an alert signal indicating the false positioning signals in response to determining that the surveillance signals include a discrepancy.

Abstract: The invention relates to a member 24 for a system for connecting a wiper blade to a windscreen wiper arm, comprising means 80 of articulation about an axis Y of pivoting and configured in order to interact with complementary means of a second member of the connection system, characterized in that the articulation means comprise at least one hole 80 comprising at least two portions 80a, 80b of a cylinder having radii R1, R2, which are constant and different, each cylinder forming a rotation bearing.

Abstract: A system provided with a windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which wiper blade includes at least one longitudinal groove, in which groove a longitudinal strip of the carrier element is disposed, wherein ends of the wiper blade and/or of the longitudinal strip are interconnected by a respective connecting piece, the carrier element biasing the wiper blade in a curved position, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device for pivotally connecting an oscillating wiper arm thereto; a holder for holding the windscreen wiper device; with the special feature that the holder comprises a stiff tightening profile engaging the windscreen wiper device at engaging locations on the connecting device for tightening the windscreen wiper device in a less curved position.

Abstract: Novel adapters, connectors and wiper blade assemblies including same for securing windshield wiper blades and arms are described, including those that accommodate side-saddle wiper arms. A wiper blade adapter may have a mounting portion comprising a wiper blade securing element, the wiper securing element being capable of securing a wiper blade, and a side-saddle portion comprising a connector securing element, the connector securing element being capable of securing a connector that is capable of securing a wiper arm.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a device for cleaning a sensor of a motor vehicle. The device in accordance with the invention includes means for simultaneous or sequential distribution via a distribution orifice (11) in a distribution nozzle (1) of a first fluid and/or a second fluid separately routed via a first admission channel (2) and/or via a second admission channel (3), respectively, to a common distribution chamber (10) in said distribution nozzle (1). It also includes means for moving said distribution nozzle (1) between a rest position and a deployed position, and these said means for moving the distribution nozzle (1) include means shared with the means for feeding the first admission channel (2) with the first fluid.

Abstract: A jack assembly including a telescopic column driven via a gear box, wherein: the gear box is coupled to a rotary input of a drive mechanism that extends and retracts the column; the gear box has only a single input gear and a single output gear that is coupled to the drive mechanism; and the input gear has a connector adapted to be engaged and driven by a portable, hand-held power tool. The invention also relates to a jack assembly with a gear box for use as a jockey wheel for attachment to a towed vehicle, to raise and lower a draw bar of the vehicle.

Abstract: A thermal management system and methods for use are disclosed. The thermal management system comprises a shield portion and a dissipation portion. The shield portion may comprise a hot side skin, a conduction layer, an insulation layer, and a cool side skin. The dissipation portion may comprise a fin array. Heat absorbed by the shield portion is partially or fully conducted to the dissipation portion for transfer to the ambient environment. The thermal management system may be employed as an aircraft wheel heat shield, an automotive brake heat shield, a gas turbine heat shield, an electronic heat sink, and in various other applications where heat shielding and/or heat transfer are desirable.

Abstract: Disclosed relates to a driving support apparatus including at least: a detection unit that detects a driving lane on which a user's vehicle and a front vehicle located in front of the user's vehicle are driving based on image data output from a camera; a first calculation unit that calculates a second front vehicle width for the front vehicle based on a first front vehicle width for the front vehicle measured on the image data, a first driving lane width for the driving lane measured on the image data, and a second driving lane width predetermined according to a characteristic of the driving lane; and a second calculation unit that calculates a distance from the front vehicle based on a focal length of the camera, the first front vehicle width, and the second front vehicle width, thereby precisely measuring the distance from the front vehicle based on camera image data.

Abstract: A brake control apparatus includes: a master cylinder that outputs a brake fluid at a master pressure; a master pressure changing device that can change the master pressure irrespective of an operation of a brake pedal; a brake actuator; and a control unit that executes antilock control by reducing a brake pressure of a target wheel. Modes of the antilock control include a normal mode and a pseudo mode. In the pseudo mode, the control unit operates the master pressure changing device such that the master pressure obtains a target value of the brake pressure of the target wheel, and changes the brake pressure of the target wheel in an interlocking manner with the master pressure. When the normal mode is unavailable, the control unit executes the antilock control in the pseudo mode.

Abstract: A control device and a method for operating a hydraulic braking system of a vehicle, a volume supplementation in a motorized plunger device being effectuatable by moving a plunger of the motorized plunger device at a maximum movement speed by a maximum movement travel in a pressure reduction direction, at least one setpoint variable regarding the maximum movement speed and/or the maximum movement travel of the plunger during the subsequent volume supplementation being established, before the volume supplementation, with consideration of at least one provided variable regarding current driving situation information and/or surroundings information, and the motor of the motorized plunger device is activated during the subsequent volume supplementation with consideration of the at least one established setpoint variable.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle brake control device which is capable of suitably executing brake assistance processing, even if a sensor for detecting the pressure inside a variable-pressure chamber of a vacuum booster is not provided. A brake device is provided with: a vacuum booster for assisting an operation force inputted to a brake pedal; a master cylinder which generates MC pressure Pmc corresponding to the assisted operation force; wheel cylinders which are provided to wheels, and in which WC pressure is increased as the MC pressure Pmc is increased; and a brake actuator capable of adjusting the WC pressure. When it is determined that emergency braking is requested, a control device of the brake device sets, as the assistance limit pressure, the MC pressure Pmc at that point in time, and operates the brake actuator, to execute brake assistance processing for assisting WC pressure increase.

Abstract: An electronic brake system is disclosed.

Abstract: An actuating device of a brake system controlled by a brake pedal and/or a brake management system for supplying brake circuits with pressurized brake fluid includes a master cylinder, an electric motor, a ball/nut screw transmission, a nut, a screw, and a free connection rod. The master cylinder is connected to the brake circuits and has a primary piston. The electric motor is controlled for a braking action. The ball nut/screw transmission is configured to transform rotary movement of the electric motor into a translational movement of the primary piston. The nut is blocked from moving in translation, free to rotate, and driven by the electric motor. The screw is free to move in translation but blocked from rotating. The free connection rod is pressed between a base of the primary piston and the screw in order to transmit a thrust of the screw to the primary piston.

Abstract: When detecting a maladjusted brake component on a commercial vehicle, wheel end temperature is determined as a function of resistance measured by a wheel speed sensor at a wheel end. The measured temperature is compared to low and high temperature thresholds defined by a thermal model, as well as to one or more other wheel speed sensor temperatures. If the measured temperature is below the low temperature threshold and substantially different than the one or more other wheel speed sensors, the brake is determined to be under-adjusted and brake force at the under-adjusted brake is increased. If the measured temperature is above the high temperature threshold and substantially different than the one or more other wheel speed sensors, then the brake is determined to be over-adjusted, and brake force is reduced or modulated at the over-adjusted brake to prevent overheating.

Abstract: An abnormality detection device includes a control target hydraulic pressure calculating portion that calculates a control target hydraulic pressure according to an operation state of a brake pedal, the hydraulic pressure obtaining portion that obtains the hydraulic pressure of the operating fluid controlled to become the control target hydraulic pressure calculated by the control target hydraulic pressure calculating portion from the pressure sensor; a second determination threshold value changing portion that changes a threshold value to be closer to the control target hydraulic pressure calculated by the control target hydraulic pressure calculating portion in a stepwise manner when a state determining portion determines that the control target hydraulic pressure is in a maintaining state, and the abnormality determining portion that determines the hydraulic pressure braking force generating device is abnormal when the hydraulic pressure obtained by the hydraulic pressure obtaining portion deviates from th

Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate brake bleeding. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a bleed controller to actuate a first valve connected to a pump and an end of a brake line, the pump connected to a reservoir; to actuate a second valve connected to the pump and a master cylinder, the master cylinder connected to the reservoir; and to operate the pump to bleed the brake line when the first valve is actuated and to bleed the master cylinder when the second valve is actuated.

Abstract: A series hybrid drive unit that is downsized while improving power transmission efficiency. In the series hybrid drive unit, a generator is driven by an engine, and a motor is operated by electricity generated by the generator. Torque generated by the generator is delivered to drive wheels through a final reduction unit. An input member that is rotated by a torque of the engine, and that is arranged parallel to a rotational center axis Og of the generator. The generator and the motor are arranged parallel to each other while keeping a predetermined clearance, and the final reduction unit is arranged parallel to the motor. The input member and the generator are connected through a first wrapping transmission mechanism, and torque of the motor is transmitted to a final reduction unit through a second wrapping transmission mechanism.

Abstract: A controller controls a valve device for opening and closing of a passage to control a flow of evaporative fuel evaporating and flowing from a fuel tank. The valve device includes a valve body housed in the passage to open and close the passage, a biasing member biasing the valve body to close the passage, and a driver driving the valve body to open the fuel passage. The controller includes a detector detecting load of the driver and a determiner to determine the position of the valve body. The determiner determines that the passage is open when a magnitude of the change of the driver load is equal to or greater than a threshold value. The controller accurately detects an open valve position without detecting an internal pressure change of the fuel tank.

Abstract: A system and a method of controlling a drive motor for a vehicle is disclosed. The system of controlling a drive motor for a vehicle may include: an engine and the drive motor as power sources; a data detector detecting a state data for controlling the drive motor; and a vehicle controller setting a motor demand power and a gear stage based on the state data. In particular, the vehicle controller generates a motor demand torque based on the motor demand power and the gear stage, checks a motor temperature after driving the drive motor based on the motor demand torque, and changes the gear stage based on the motor temperature.

Abstract: A vehicle energy management device has a vehicle information receiver to receive vehicle information including a vehicle speed and a state of charge of a battery, a route information receiver to receive route information to a destination, and a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to perform: a vehicle information acquisition process of acquiring vehicle information including at least information on a vehicle speed and a state of charge of the battery; a route information acquisition process of acquiring route information to the destination; an optimal plan calculation process of making a target vehicle speed plan for the destination and a driving necessity plan for a motor, an engine, and a generator on the basis of the route information and the vehicle information; and a vehicle control process of controlling the motor, the engine, and the generator on the basis of the driving necessity plan.

Abstract: A method for controlling a hybrid starter and generator (HSG) is applied to an eco-friendly vehicle. The method includes HSG torque-output limiting control, and in particular, the HSG torque-output limiting control is divided into an HSG regeneration mode and an HSG driving mode in which output limitation of the HSG 3 is performed after torque limitation of the HSG 3. Furthermore, the HSG regeneration mode includes: a former regenerative torque output control in which an engine RPM is converted by a controller 10 into regenerative torque output of the HSG 3 for about 1 second when an engine starts idling to charge a battery, and a latter regenerative torque output control in which the engine RPM is converted into the regenerative torque output of the HSG 3 after 1 second to about five seconds to continue to charge the battery 7, and an HSG driving mode.

Abstract: Information of a plurality of locations on a route for a vehicle is received. A plurality of segments of the route is identified based at least in part on the information. A specified state of charge of a vehicle battery and a specified power output of an engine are determined for each of the segments based at least in part on the information. One or more vehicle subsystems is actuated to navigate each of the segments to change a current state of charge of the vehicle battery to the specified state of charge.

Abstract: A motive power system includes a first energy storage, a second energy storage, an actuator, an internal combustion engine, an electric generator, a power transmission circuit, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to control the power transmission circuit to charge at least the second energy storage via the electric generator. The circuitry is configured to control the power transmission circuit such that only the first energy storage supplies electric power to the actuator for a predetermined period when a charge rate of the second energy storage is lower than a first threshold.

Abstract: A system and method for providing torque-assist to a rotary shaft of an internal combustion engine control an electric machine in response to operation of an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve to assist the rotation of the rotary shaft. The system and method facilitate periodic operation of the EGR valve to purge condensation without objectionable torque reduction when the engine is operating near full load.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a planetary gear set, a gearbox, an electric machine, and an engine. The planetary gear set has a sun gear, a carrier, and a ring gear. The gearbox is configured to transmit power from the ring gear to vehicle wheels. The electric machine is fixedly coupled to the sun gear. The engine is selectively coupled to the ring gear via a first selectable one-way clutch and selectively coupled to the carrier via a second selectable one-way clutch.