IP Library Granted Patent US 7,882,757
Granted Patent B2
US 7,882,757 · App. 11/416,809 · Granted Feb 8, 2011

Gear actuator for a motor vehicle transmission design, motor vehicle transmission design with a gear actuator as well as motor vehicle drive train with a motor vehicle transmission design

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Patent No.
US 7,882,757
App. No.
11/416,809
Granted
Feb 8, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a gear actuator for a motor vehicle transmission design, that has several ratio steps for forming gears, whereby the gear actuator has a gear-shift shaft that is mounted so that it can rotate for the shifting of gears and that is mounted so that it can slide axially for the selection of gears and whereby the gear actuator also has a shift gate, whereby the shift gate also has a fixed mounted first shift gate part that is especially a shaft or an axle, as well as a second shift gate part that is mounted so that it can move axially and move in rotation or swivel, which is especially a disk or plate and is coupled with the gear-shift shaft and whereby the first shift gate part has several axially spaced recesses, into which the second shift gate part can be swiveled depending on its axial position.

Claims (6)

1. A gear actuator for a motor vehicle transmission design ( 3 ), that has several ratio steps for forming gears, whereby the gear actuator ( 1 ) comprises a gear-shift shaft ( 58 , 66 ) that is operatively arranged so the gear-shift shaft can move in rotation for the shifting of gears and can move axially for the selection of gears, and a shift gate ( 2 ), wherein the shift gate ( 2 ) includes a fixedly mounted first shift gate part ( 10 ), a second shift gate part ( 12 ) that is coupled to the gear-shift shaft so the second shift gate part can move axially and in rotation with respect to an axis of the gear-shift shaft, and wherein the first shift gate part ( 10 ) has several recesses ( 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 ), wherein the recesses are spaced from each other in an axial direction substantially parallel to an axis of the gear shift shaft, into each of which recesses the second shift gate part ( 12 ) can rotate, depending on an axial position of the second shift gate part, wherein the axially spaced recesses ( 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 ) of the first shift gate parts ( 10 ) are assigned to different shift tracks of the gear actuators ( 1 ) and that in the positions of the gear actuator ( 1 ), in which it is positioned outside of a shift track, the first ( 10 ) and the second shift gate part ( 12 ) connect with positive engagement to block a movement capability of the second shift gate part ( 12 ).

2. The gear actuator according to claim 1 , wherein the first shift gate part ( 10 ) is designed so it is essentially rotationally symmetrical.

3. The gear actuator according to claim 1 , wherein the axially spaced recesses ( 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 ) of the first shift gate parts ( 10 ) are each designed as a groove or a ring groove.

4. The gear actuator according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the axially spaced recesses ( 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 ) of the first shift gate parts ( 10 ) corresponds to the number of shift tracks of the gear actuators ( 1 ).

5. A gear actuator for a motor vehicle transmission design ( 3 ), that has several ratio steps for forming gears, whereby the gear actuator ( 1 ) comprises a gear-shift shaft ( 58 , 66 ) that is operatively arranged so the gear-shift shaft can move in rotation for the shifting of gears and can move axially for the selection of gears, and a shift gate ( 2 ), wherein the shift gate ( 2 ) includes a fixedly mounted first shift gate part ( 10 ), a second shift gate part ( 12 ) that is coupled to the gear-shift shaft so the second shift gate part can move axially and in rotation with respect to an axis of the gear-shift shaft, and wherein the first shift gate part ( 10 ) has several recesses ( 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 ), wherein the recesses are spaced from each other in an axial direction substantially parallel to an axis of the gear shift shaft, into each of which recesses the second shift gate part ( 12 ) can rotate, depending on an axial position of the second shift gate part, wherein the axially spaced recesses ( 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 ) of the first shift gate parts ( 10 ) are each limited by opposite wall sections ( 24 , 26 ) that are provided radially on the outside with guide chamfers ( 42 ).

6. A gear actuator for a motor vehicle transmission design ( 3 ), that has several ratio steps for forming gears, whereby the gear actuator ( 1 ) comprises a gear-shift shaft ( 58 , 66 ) that is operatively arranged so the gear-shift shaft can move in rotation for the shifting of gears and can move axially for the selection of gears, and a shift gate ( 2 ), wherein the shift gate ( 2 ) includes a fixedly mounted first shift gate part ( 10 ), a second shift gate part ( 12 ) that is coupled to the gear-shift shaft so the second shift gate part can move axially and in rotation with respect to an axis of the gear-shift shaft, and wherein the first shift gate part ( 10 ) has several recesses ( 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 ), wherein the recesses are spaced from each other in an axial direction substantially parallel to an axis of the gear shift shaft, into each of which recesses the second shift gate part ( 12 ) can rotate, depending on an axial position of the second shift gate part, wherein positions of the second shift gate part ( 12 ), in which of this second shift gate part ( 12 ) is swiveled into a recess ( 14 and/or 16 and/or 18 and/or 20 and/or 22 ) of the axially spaced recesses ( 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 ) of the first shift gate part ( 10 ), there is a positive engagement between the first ( 10 ) and the second shift gate parts ( 12 ) in selecting direction and/or in axial direction of the first shift gate parts ( 10 ) so the selecting and/or an axial movement of the first shift gate parts ( 10 ), and thus an axial movement of the gear-shift shaft ( 58 , 66 ) is locked and/or blocked.

Assignments (4)
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 →
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 →