Operator Coaxial With Its Clutch-assemblage Patents (Class 192/48.603)
  • Patent number: 11364785
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Michael Roske, Johannes Kaltenbach, Thomas Rosemeier, Juri Pawlakowitsch, Raffael Kuberczyk
  • Patent number: 8919512
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Larry A. Pritchard
  • Patent number: 8631920
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Clinton E. Carey, Daryl A. Wilton, James M. Hart
  • Patent number: 8459425
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Willi Ruder, Stefan Mackowiak, Martin Dilzer
  • Patent number: 8454468
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Janson, Jeffrey E. Maurer, Laurence A. Deutsch
  • Patent number: 8413780
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Servet Yildiz, Markus Haehle, James M. Partyka, Robert Neil Paciotti
  • Publication number: 20130056323
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Mathias Jakob-Bodenhagen, Hans-Peter Fleischmann, Tassilo Scholle
  • Patent number: 8365893
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Clinton E. Carey, James M. Hart, Elizabeth I. Wooden
  • Patent number: 8360217
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christophe Acker, Sibylle Hahn
  • Patent number: 8297422
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Johannes Arnold, Oliver Noehl, Ivo Agner
  • Patent number: 8066107
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventor: George Reisch Aschauer
  • Publication number: 20100243396
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kinya Mizuno, Yoshiaki Tsukada, Takashi Ozeki, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20100140037
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Guenter, Goetz Nicklas