Abstract: A clutch for a two-mass flywheel of an internal combustion engine includes a first half-coupling and a second-half coupling. Both half-couplings are, within the bounds provided, torsionally twistable relative to the other. The half-couplings are connected to each other through elastic clutch elements. Side-disks form an inner, leakproof compartment containing a center disk. In the radially outer regions of the compartment resides at least one displacement chamber that is capable of being filled and which has a throttle orifice. The displacement chamber is bound circumferentially by two first tappets which are part of one half-coupling, as well as by a second tappet which is part of the other half-coupling. The second tappet divides the displacement chamber into two sectional chambers. At least one of the tappets includes a stationary tappet piece and a movable tappet piece which is movable in circumferential direction and delimits the respective partial chamber.

Abstract: An internal geared wheel pump that does not have a crescent shaped piece. The pump has an internal geared wheel that meshes with a pinion. The pinion and geared wheel are mounted in a rotatable manner in a housing that has a suction connection and a pressure connection. The geared wheel has passages that produce each time a conductive connection between the base of the tooth and the envelope surface of the geared wheel. Conductive connections are produced between the bearing flanks of the teeth of the geared wheel or the teeth of the pinion and the radial boreholes of the geared wheel.

Abstract: A drive system for the transmission of power from a drive source to a plurality of output trains includes a transfer gear connected upstream of the output trains, and an arrangement for ensuring that the output trains are not overloaded with torque. The arrangement includes a safety clutch with a basic clutch body for the frictionally engaged connection of two machine parts, and at least one thin-walled sleeve which forms a wall of an annular chamber upon which pressure medium can act. The arrangement further includes at least one feed line which extends through the clutch body to the annular chamber and can be closed off in an air and fluid-tight manner by use of closure elements. The arrangement finally includes a pressure-relief mechanism. The safety clutch is arranged upstream of the transfer gear.

Abstract: A crescentless internal gear pump includes a housing with an intake connection and a pressure connection. An internally toothed internal gear has an outside surface and is disposed for rotation within the housing. Each tooth includes a head and a base, the internal gear having radial openings that form a conducting connection between a tooth base and the outside surface. A pinion, which is rotatably disposed within the housing and meshing with the internal gear, has teeth with each tooth including a head. The teeth of one of the internal gear and pinion, includes a profile groove with a base provided in the heads into which a sealing element is disposed and which slides on an opposing tooth head. The sealing element has a sealing surface and includes a channel that produces a conducting connection between the profile groove base and the sealing surface. The sealing element is slightly movable in the profile groove in the radial direction to form a controlled gap.

Abstract: A deep drilling or deep well pump system includes a driving motor, a driven component connected to the driving motor, and a hydrodynamic retarder. The hydrodynamic retarder includes a rotor and stator blade wheel. The rotor blade wheel and the stator blade wheel together form a toroidal working space continuously filled with a working medium during operation of the deep drilling device or the deep well pump device. The rotor blade wheel is continuously connected at least indirectly to the driving motor. The blading of the rotor and stator blade wheel is designed so that, owing to the blade direction in the drive mode, the rotor blade wheel revolves freely. During the occurrence of restoring forces on the driven components, the retarder operates in a braking manner.

Abstract: A non-crescent seal gear pump includes a housing with a pump chamber, a rotatable ring gear in the pump chamber having an outer periphery and internal toothing and an eccentric pinion with external toothing and rotatable in mesh with the rotatable ring gear at one circumferential side of the ring gear and the pinion and the ring gear. The tooth tips of the ring gear have grooves in which are inserted radially movable sealing elements that are movable radially slightly. The sealing elements in the ring gear and the teeth of the pinion are so placed as to slide past each other at the other circumferential side of the ring gear. A distribution groove is worked into either the wall of the profile groove and/or into the sealing element at the wall and the distribution groove extends axially along the sealing element. Radial legs may project outwardly from the axially extending distribution groove.

Abstract: A drive unit having an engine comprising at least one engine output shaft, a transmission following the engine and a coolant circuit with at least one water pump. The water pump is arranged behind the engine viewed in the direction of force flow. The drive unit may also include a hydrodynamic retarder having a stator and a rotor.

Abstract: A method for the control of shifting processes in a vehicle transmission from an initial gear to the next higher target gear includes the steps of continuously determining the vehicle acceleration (a) and the driven rpm (n.sub.2) behind the vehicle transmission. A shifting process is triggered when the acceleration value (a) and the essentially simultaneously recorded driven rpm value (n.sub.2) fall on a shifting point which lies on a shifting characteristic (n.sub.2 (a)) in an acceleration-driven rpm diagram, where the shifting characteristic (n.sub.2 (a)) has a stepped course with at least two break points (a.sub.-- max; a.sub.-- min) and the slope of the shifting characteristic for acceleration values a.sub.-- min<a<a.sub.-- max is always smaller than or equal to the slope of the shifting characteristic for acceleration values a.ltoreq.a.sub.-- min or a.gtoreq.a.sub.-- max. In other words, the following applies:.linevert split.n.sub.2 (a.sub.1).linevert split..ltoreq..linevert split.n.sub.2 (a.sub.

Abstract: A universal joint apparatus having jointed shaft suited for transmitting high torques, comprising a spider and two yokes for fitting the arms of the spider. Each spider arm is fitted, with a bearing setup having a radial bearing with an outer ring and an inner ring, an axial bearing arranged in the area of the spider arm wrist, in a yoke eye associated with the latter. The axial bearing is disposed in a connecting structure of elastic behavior.

Abstract: A transmission unit for drive units is used to achieve at least two operational states: a first operational state for the transmission of power with at least two gear steps, and a second operational state for braking. The transmission unit includes an input shaft and an output shaft, a hydraulic transmission part and a mechanical transmission part. The two transmission parts are arranged in series. The hydraulic part includes at least two blade wheels in the form of a primary blade wheel and a secondary blade wheel, which together form at least one toroid operating space which can be filled with operating fluid. The two blade wheels are coupled to the input shaft of the transmission unit and to the mechanical part via at least part of the first operational state in such a way that power is transmitted from the primary blade wheel to the mechanical part via the secondary blade wheel.

Abstract: A method for influencing the drive torque in a drive train comprising at least one electric motor at least indirectly driving one driven wheel, an internal combustion engine, and an electric machine allowing mechanical coupling to said engine operating a generator and a motor. Each selected motor allows electric coupling to the generator.The system creates a device for presetting a driver's desire for movement of the vehicle, coupled at least indirectly to an actuator of the internal combustion engine. According to the invention, the electric motors are operated as generators, at least upon release of the system for presetting a driver's desire. Drawn from the driven wheels by the electric motors is a first output portion that is generated in generator mode and fed to the electric machine for driving the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An apparatus for gear shifting control with improved shift quality during gear shifting includes a gearbox unit containing at least one gear branch for power transfer via a hydrodynamic clutch. The hydrodynamic clutch can be coupled in series with a mechanical gearing part containing a device for realizing at least two speeds. In the course of power transfer via the hydrodynamic clutch during a gear shift operation between two mechanical speeds, the fill factor of the hydrodynamic clutch is so altered that a variable which at least indirectly characterizes the rotational speed of the primary bucket wheel of the hydrodynamic clutch is held substantially constant over a certain range of the gear shift operation.

Abstract: A drive unit for a motor vehicle having an engine; a transmission featuring a transmission housing; and a retarder featuring a rotor and a stator. A retarder shaft is provided that is supported by two bearings which are offset along the axial length of the retarder shaft. At least one of the bearings ("outside bearing") is supported by a wall ("outside wall") of the transmission housing. The retarder shaft protrudes freely beyond the outside wall of the transmission housing. Disposed on the retarder shaft, outside the outer bearing, on the outside wall, is a sealing component. The sealing component seals the clearance between the retarder (or pinion) shaft and the outside wall, preventing passage therethrough of the transmission oil and the operating medium of the retarder.

Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle which includes an engine, transmission and hydrodynamic retarder having a rotor and a stator. A retarder shaft is rotatably supported by two bearings and extends through the housing of the transmission. A sealing element provides a seal between the retarder shaft and the transmission housing for separating the operating medium of the hydrodynamic retarder from either the transmission lubricant or the lubricant for one of the two shaft bearings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for an electric machine, specifically a transverse flow machine, comprising at least one support disk and at least one annular pole structure arranged on an end face of the support disk, coaxial to the rotor axis, and extending in axial direction. The pole structure comprises two adjacent rows, separated by an intermediate layer of magnetically and electrically nonconducting material (spacer ring), of the peripheral direction alternately magnetized magnet arrays with interposed collector or soft-iron elements. An end ring is coordinated with each pole structure. A plurality of magnet arrays features an inner and an outer magnet. The design of the collector or soft-iron elements adjoining a magnet array in the peripheral direction is such that they form in radial direction an inner stop and an outer stop for the magnet array.The invention is characterized in that an intermediate element is coordinated with a plurality of magnet arrays.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a drive unit for a conveyor system, in particular for a chain conveyor drive with at least one driving machine and at least one hydrodynamic clutch. The hydrodynamic clutch can be filled with operating medium in which, during continuous operation, the operating medium is guided in a closed circuit. The circuit includes an inlet line associated such that the operating medium losses in the circuit are compensated for and in which the temperature in the closed circuit is ascertained and compared with a permissible temperature value. The invention includes the feature that upon exceeding an permissible temperature value in the closed circuit, the inlet line and the outlet line are simultaneously connected in the circuit for the purpose of volumetric cooling.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the operation of a vehicle with a plurality of electric motors includes an electric motor assigned to each wheel of an axle of the vehicle. Attached to each of the electric motors is a shiftable transmission (at least two-speeds). Shifting of a transmission is performed as a function of the total efficiency of the particular motor when reaching a predetermined shifting point. The transmissions attached to the electric motors are shifted, delayed in time. The shifting of the transmission attached to a first electric motor is monitored and the shifting of a transmission attached to a second motor is performed only when the shifting of the first transmission is completed. No interruption of the traction force occurs in the drive system.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for operating a drive installation unit for a vehicle which reduces environmentally harmful gases while improving drive acceleration and deceleration performance by integrating an electric motor and power converter with an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An electrohydraulic hybrid drive for a plastic injection molding machine having at least one hydraulic actuator, at least one feed system for feeding the hydraulic fluid for actuation of the hydraulic actuators, at least one electric motor for operating the feed system for the hydraulic actuators, at least one further electric motor for driving the extruder screw of a plasticator device, a joint frequency convertor which actuates both of the electrical motors and a switching device circuited between the frequency converter and at least one of the electrical motors.

Abstract: A drive unit includes a hydrodynamic retarder having a rotor paddle wheel, a stator paddle wheel, and a housing surrounding the rotor and stator wheels. The unit includes a coolant cycle system for an internal combustion engine, the coolant for this coolant cycle also being a working medium of the retarder. The drive unit further includes a working medium container for the coolant. A first pipe connects a hydrodynamic center of the retarder to a valve. A second, leakage pipe is disposed between a working medium outlet of the retarder and the valve. A third pipe is disposed between the valve and the working medium container. The valve is designed such that in a first position, a conducting connection is established between the working medium container and the leakage pipe to provide for a pumping operation of the retarder. When the valve is in a second position, a conducting connection is established between the working medium container and the first pipe for a braking operation of the retarder.