IP Library Granted Patent US 7,617,035
Granted Patent B2
US 7,617,035 · App. 10/904,724 · Granted Nov 10, 2009

Method for operating a drive train by treating the motor characteristic by means of parallel evaluation and PT1-filtering

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Patent No.
US 7,617,035
App. No.
10/904,724
Granted
Nov 10, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

At least one input signal is detected in a time slot, representing the temporal progression of at least one rotational value of the motor of a drive train section and/or the respective corresponding power thereof and is electronically treated and/or evaluated a plurality of times in a parallel manner and according to different characteristics. At least one comparison of the different treating and/or evaluation results of the same imput signal is determined, whether the transmission behavior of the drive train or at least one predetermined drive train component is altered. A PT1 filtering, for example, is used for the treatment and/or evaluation.

Claims (12)

1. A method for operating a friction clutch device disposed within a drive train and operatively arranged to be loaded by an internal combustion engine, comprising the step of monitoring whether torque response of the friction clutch device changes and changes specifically due to heating or deformation of the friction clutch device, wherein, for the monitoring of changes of the torque response of the friction clutch, a multi-timescale-analysis is carried out.

2. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the friction clutch is disposed within a drive train of a motor vehicle and at least one performance parameter of the motor vehicle is evaluated for the monitoring of changes of the torque response of the friction clutch.

3. The method as described in one of claim 1 , wherein, for the monitoring of changes of the torque response of the friction clutch device, the engine torque of an internal combustion engine or its time derivative is evaluated.

4. The method as described in claim 3 , wherein the engine torque that is evaluated is calculated and supplied via a CAN data bus.

5. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein, for the monitoring of changes of the torque response of the friction clutch device, the crankshaft torque or the time derivative of the crankshaft torque of a crankshaft that is drivable or driven by an internal combustion engine is evaluated.

6. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein, for the monitoring of changes of the torque response of the friction clutch device, different functions of the engine torque signal, and in particular of the time characteristic of the engine torque signal, are monitored, evaluated and compared.

7. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein, for the monitoring of changes of the torque response of the friction clutch, at least one function is a PT1-filtering.

8. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein, for monitoring of changes of the torque response of the friction clutch device, the engine speed is constant.

9. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the method is started and carried out if the clutch device slips, and in particular at least the clutch device is operated in a creeping mode.

10. The method as described in claim 9 , wherein when the method is started and carried out, a wheel speed is equal to zero or for at least a predetermined time period.

11. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the clutch device is controlled as a function of a result that is determined according to a preceding process regarding the change of the transmission behavior of the clutch device.

12. The method as described in claim 11 , wherein at least one output flow of the engine power, especially disposed outside of the drive train, is taken into consideration in the result.

Assignments (7)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE PROPERTY NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 037732 FRAME 0347. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE APP. NO. 14/553248 SHOULD BE APP. NO. 14/553258. Recorded Oct 11, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 040404/0530 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: LUK VERMÖGENSVERWALTUNGS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037731/0748 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037731/0834 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG; SCHAEFFLER VERWALTUNGS 5 GMBH
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0228 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0347 →
MERGER Recorded Feb 3, 2016
From: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
To: LUK VERMÖGENSVERWALTUNGS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
Reel/Frame 037740/0589 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2004
From: REIBOLD, EKKEHARD
To: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
Reel/Frame 015483/0423 →