IP Library Granted Patent US 8,215,468
Granted Patent B2
US 8,215,468 · App. 12/372,993 · Granted Jul 10, 2012

Locking device for a start-stop operation of a starter generator

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Patent No.
US 8,215,468
App. No.
12/372,993
Granted
Jul 10, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A torque-transmission system with a decoupler ( 1 ) between a shaft ( 2 ) and a belt pulley ( 3 ) of a starter generator is provided. The belt pulley can rotate relative to the shaft ( 2 ). For reducing rotary oscillations, the decoupler ( 1 ) includes a damping device arranged between the belt pulley ( 3 ) and the shaft ( 2 ) with at least one spring element ( 5 ). The decoupler ( 1 ) includes an automatic locking device ( 7 ) that is dependent on a direction of rotation and that produces, at a low rotational speed level, a coupling between the belt pulley ( 3 ) and the shaft ( 2 ), and this coupling automatically disconnects when a pre-determined rotational speed is reached.

Claims (2)

1. A decoupler for a torque-transmission system between a shaft and a belt pulley of a starter generator in which belt pulley can rotate relative to the shaft, the decoupler comprising at least one spring element for reducing rotary oscillations as a damping device between the belt pulley and the shaft, and a rotational direction-dependent, automatic locking device that in a first rotational direction creates a coupling between the belt pulley and the shaft at a low rotational speed level, and automatically disconnects the coupling when a predetermined rotational speed is reached, and for a second, opposite rotational direction, the locking device allows a relative rotation between the pulley and the shaft, wherein the locking device engages in a middle position of an operating range between the belt pulley and the shaft.

2. A decoupler for a torque-transmission system between a shaft and a belt pulley of a starter generator in which belt pulley can rotate relative to the shaft, the decoupler comprising at least one spring element for reducing rotary oscillations as a damping device between the belt pulley and the shaft, and a rotational direction-dependent, automatic locking device that in a first rotational direction creates a coupling between the belt pulley and the shaft at a low rotational speed level, and automatically disconnects the coupling when a predetermined rotational speed is reached, and for a second, opposite rotational direction, the locking device allows a relative rotation between the pulley and the shaft, wherein the locking device engages offset to a middle position of an operating range between the belt pulley and the shaft.

Assignments (3)
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 →
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 →