Operator Coaxial With Its Clutch-assemblage Patents (Class 192/48.603)
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Patent number: 11364785Abstract: A dual clutch arrangement for a dual clutch transmission includes a first clutch and a second clutch. The output of the first clutch is connected to the input of the second clutch. A dual clutch transmission arrangement with the dual clutch arrangement and a motor vehicle with the dual clutch arrangement are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Michael Roske, Johannes Kaltenbach, Thomas Rosemeier, Juri Pawlakowitsch, Raffael Kuberczyk
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Patent number: 8919512Abstract: An arrangement of a dual clutch transmission that incorporates a positive pressure lubrication cooler heat exchanger that is integrated into a cover of a wet clutch module of the transmission is provided. Additionally, a method of assembling a wet dual clutch transmission assembly is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventor: Larry A. Pritchard
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Patent number: 8631920Abstract: An apparatus for transferring torque from a crankshaft to a dual input transmission includes: a flywheel connected at one end to the crankshaft and at the opposite end to a torque transmitting device or dual clutch. The flywheel has a first coupling member that is configured to engage a second coupling member attached to a center plate of the dual clutch. The first coupling member is fixedly secured to the second coupling member by a fastening means. A dual clutch actuation device generates the axial compression force required to compress a first and second set of frictional elements of a dual clutch.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Clinton E. Carey, Daryl A. Wilton, James M. Hart
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Patent number: 8459425Abstract: A torque transmission unit which has a first centrifugal mass that can be non-rotatably associated with an internal combustion engine and a second centrifugal mass that is connected downstream of the first mass and can be associated with a transmission. The second centrifugal mass has a rotor of an electric machine for transmitting a torque that can be electrically generated to the second centrifugal mass and a centrifugal force pendulum for reducing torsional vibrations.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Willi Ruder, Stefan Mackowiak, Martin Dilzer
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Patent number: 8454468Abstract: An assembly includes a clutch support formed with multiple cylinders, each cylinder connectable to a source of hydraulic pressure that actuates a clutch, and a planetary gearset including a ring gear driveably connected to the clutch support.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: David A. Janson, Jeffrey E. Maurer, Laurence A. Deutsch
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Patent number: 8413780Abstract: A device for transmitting torque between a flywheel rotatably connected to an engine and a dual clutch transmission. The device includes a first substantially u-shaped member fixed to a perimeter of a dual clutch of the dual clutch transmission. The first substantially u-shaped member defines a slot having an open end. The second substantially u-shaped member is attached to a perimeter of the flywheel. The second substantially u-shaped member includes a support member for supporting an engagement member. The first substantially u-shaped member fits at least partially within the second substantially u-shaped member. The pair of bushings disposed proximate the engagement member between the first and second coupling members.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Servet Yildiz, Markus Haehle, James M. Partyka, Robert Neil Paciotti
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Publication number: 20130056323Abstract: A twin-clutch for a twin-clutch variable speed transmission in motor vehicles includes two wet running multi-disk-clutches which are arranged axially in succession in a transmission housing, wherein end walls of the transmission housing are provided on respective sides of the multi disk clutches, a driving clutch housing; two transmission hubs outputting to transmission input shafts, and alternately drivingly connectable with the clutch housing via clutch disks; ring pistons shiftably supported in the end walls of the transmission housing and hydraulically pressurizeable with pressure oil via ducts arranged in the end walls to thereby cause a shifting of the ring pistons, wherein the ring pistons alternately act on the clutch disks via pressure disks, and wherein the pressure disks are actuatable from outside the clutch housing by the ring pistons; and axial rolling bearings respectively arranged between the ring pistons and the pressure disks.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Mathias Jakob-Bodenhagen, Hans-Peter Fleischmann, Tassilo Scholle
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Patent number: 8365893Abstract: A dual clutch selectively transmits torque from a flywheel to a dual input transmission. The transmission has two input shafts a first shaft and a second shaft that is a hollow sleeve shaft. The second shaft is concentric with the first shaft. The dual clutch has two clutch units to selectively couple a crankshaft of an engine to one of the two input shafts. More specifically, the dual clutch includes members such as a clutch housing rotationally fixed to the crankshaft through a flywheel and other members such hubs that are rotationally fixed to the input shafts. The clutches are actuated by a rotationally fixed clutch actuator. Axial loads on the clutches are transferred through a bearing to a fixed member.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Clinton E. Carey, James M. Hart, Elizabeth I. Wooden
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Patent number: 8360217Abstract: An actuator for a dual clutch, by which a first release hearing can be pulled and a second release bearing can be pressed and which has a compact design.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Christophe Acker, Sibylle Hahn
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Patent number: 8297422Abstract: A multiple clutch device which includes a drive unit, a downstream transmission connected to a drive shaft of the drive unit and accommodated in a clutch bell that does not co-rotate with the drive shaft, two wet multi-plate clutches, which include a plate support at the input and output end and plates alternating axially, and an actuation mechanism. A housing of the actuation mechanism is supported on the clutch bell, and the plate support at the input end of at least one of the multi-plate clutches is connected to the housing by a supporting metal sheet or a supporting pot and a footstep bearing such that a flow of an actuation force generated by the actuation mechanism is redirected to the housing of the actuation mechanism via the supporting metal sheet or the supporting pot and the footstep bearing, thus creating a closed force flow within the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Johannes Arnold, Oliver Noehl, Ivo Agner
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Patent number: 8066107Abstract: A marine reverse and reduction transmission with modulatable marine transmission clutches including fluid operated nonrotating pistons for effecting clutch engagement by compression of the plates, the pistons generating thrust that is transferred through bearings between the pistons and the rotating clutch packs and gears to the transmission housing parts.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Inventor: George Reisch Aschauer
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Publication number: 20100243396Abstract: A clutch actuator structure provided for an internal combustion engine and a hydraulic clutch mechanism for transmitting a rotational driving force of a crankshaft of said engine includes a clutch actuator for controlling an oil pressure for engaging and disengaging the hydraulic clutch mechanism. The clutch actuator structure ensures that noises generated at the times of operation of the clutch actuator for actuating a hydraulic clutch are prevented from being transmitted to the exterior. The clutch actuator structure includes an oil sump part for reserving oil provided in the periphery of a clutch actuator. The clutch actuator is disposed in the oil sump part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kinya Mizuno, Yoshiaki Tsukada, Takashi Ozeki, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20100140037Abstract: The invention relates to a coupling arrangement comprising a component (6) fixed to a housing, a piston (2) that is located rotatably about an axis of rotation (?) relative to the component (6) fixed to a housing, a rotatable component (1) designed as a component mounted rotatably about the axis of rotation (?) relative to the component fixed to a housing and having a chamber (8) in the front region of the piston (2), a line arrangement (4) forming a communication line through the component (6) fixed to a housing and the rotatable component (1) to the chamber (8) for a pressure medium, and a rotary feedthrough seal (3) sealing the line arrangement (4) between the component (6) fixed to a housing and the rotatable component (1), wherein a radial inner distance (ri) and/or a radial outer distance (ra) of the piston (2) from the axis of rotation (?) is less than a radial seal distance (r0) of the rotary feedthrough seal (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2008Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Frank Guenter, Goetz Nicklas