IP Library Granted Patent US 7,469,625
Granted Patent B2
US 7,469,625 · App. 10/592,677 · Granted Dec 30, 2008

Hydraulic transmission actuator

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Patent No.
US 7,469,625
App. No.
10/592,677
Granted
Dec 30, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A hydraulic transmission actuator has a piston/cylinder unit in which an actuating piston longitudinally displaceably arranged in the cylinder housing divides the cylinder chamber into at least two pressure chambers which can be acted upon by hydraulic oil by way of control conduits. A piston rod is connected with the actuating piston, and a sealing element is arranged on the actuating piston. The sealing element seals off the two pressure chambers from one another. The diameter of the cylinder housing is locally reduced for increasing the radial contact pressure force of the sealing element with respect to the interior cylinder wall.

Claims (11)

1. Hydraulic transmission actuator comprising a piston/cylinder unit having an actuating piston system longitudinally displaceably arranged in a cylinder housing so as to divide the cylinder chamber into at least two pressure chambers which are actable upon by hydraulic oil by control conduits, at least one piston rod connected with the actuating piston system, and a sealing element arranged on the actuating piston system, to seal off the pressure chambers from one another,

wherein the diameter of the cylinder housing is locally reduced for selectively increasing the radial contact pressure force of the sealing element with respect to an interior wall of the cylinder housing, and

wherein a diameter of the cylinder housing in a left and right operating position spaced from a center position of the actuating piston system is reduced with respect to a diameter of the cylinder housing in the center position of the actuating piston system,

2. Hydraulic transmission actuator according to claim 1 , wherein a diameter of the cylinder housing, starting out from left and right operating positions, widens in a direction of the respective end position of the actuating piston and, in two end positions, ahs a diameter substantially the same as in a center position of the actuating piston system.

3. Hydraulic transmission actuator according to claim 2 , wherein a diameter of the cylinder housing in a left and right operating position spaced from a center position of the actuating piston system is reduced with respect to a diameter of the cylinder housing in the center position of the actuating piston system.

4. A hydraulic transmission actuator according to claim 1 , wherein the actuating piston system and the cylinder housing have a stepped construction.

5. In an automatic standard transmission, an actuating element for a gear change comprising a piston/cylinder unit having an actuating piston system longitudinally displaceably arranged in a cylinder housing so as to divide the cylinder chamber into at least two pressure chambers which are actable upon by hydraulic oil by control conduits, at least one piston rod connected with the actuating piston system, and a sealing element arranged on the actuating piston system, to seal off the pressure chambers from one another,

wherein the diameter of the cylinder housing is locally reduced for selectively increasing the radial contact pressure force of the sealing element with respect to an interior wall of the cylinder housing.

6. In the automatic standard transmission according to claim 5 , wherein a diameter of the cylinder housing in a left and right operating position spaced from a center position of the actuating piston system is reduced with respect to a diameter of the cylinder housing in the center position of the actuating piston system.

7. Hydraulic transmission actuator according to claim 5 , wherein a diameter of the cylinder housing, starting out from left and right operating positions, widens in a direction of the respective end position of the actuating piston and, in two end positions, ahs a diameter substantially the same as in a center position of the actuating piston system.

8. In the automatic standard transmission according to claim 5 , wherein the actuating piston system and the cylinder housing have a stepped construction.

Assignments (4)
MERGER Recorded Jun 16, 2010
From: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: PORSCHE ZWISCHENHOLDING GMBH
Reel/Frame 024546/0631 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 16, 2010
From: PORSCHE ZWISCHENHOLDING GMBH
To: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 024546/0651 →
RE-RECORD TO CORRECT THE EXECUTION DATE OF THE SOLE INVENTOR, PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL 018318 FRAME 0123. Recorded Nov 16, 2006
From: NASSIF, SERGE
To: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 018541/0495 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 13, 2006
From: NASSIF, SERGE
To: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 018318/0123 →