IP Library Granted Patent US 8,746,097
Granted Patent B2
US 8,746,097 · App. 12/766,105 · Granted Jun 10, 2014

Drive train

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Patent No.
US 8,746,097
App. No.
12/766,105
Granted
Jun 10, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A drive train, which has an internal combustion engine with a crankshaft and a parallel shift transmission with two part drive trains, which each have one transmission input shaft. One shaft is formed as a hollow shaft around the other shaft, and a dual clutch, which is received rotatably on the hollow shaft, is connected to the crankshaft and has two friction clutches and two clutch plates each assigned to one clutch and are each connected to one transmission input shaft. Each clutch plate has a torsional vibration damper with a working range which is smaller than a maximum torque of the engine. A build-up of a combined vibration which has an axial vibration of the dual clutch and a rotational vibration of the drive train during an overlap shift operation is prevented by the design of the torsional vibration dampers for a smaller torque.

Claims (9)

1. A drive train, comprising:

an internal combustion engine having a crankshaft and a parallel gear-shift transmission with two part drive trains, each of the part drive trains having one transmission input shaft,

wherein one transmission input shaft is formed as a hollow shaft around the other transmission input shaft, and with a dual clutch which is received rotatably on the hollow shaft, is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the crankshaft and has two friction clutches and two clutch plates which are assigned to, in each case, one clutch and are connected in a rotationally fixed manner to, in each case, one transmission input shaft,

wherein each clutch plate has a torsional vibration damper with a working range smaller than a maximum torque of the internal combustion engine so that the torsional vibration dampers eliminate or reduce vibration events that occur during an overlapping shifting operation, and

a further torsional vibration damper mounted between the crankshaft and the dual clutch.

2. The drive train of claim 1 , wherein the working range of the torsional vibration damper arranged in the friction clutches is limited to half the maximum torque of the internal combustion engine.

3. The drive train of claim 1 , wherein the torsional vibration damper is bridged during a transmission of a torque which exceeds the working range of a torsional vibration damper.

4. The drive train of claim 1 , wherein the torque which is transmittable via the friction clutches is limited to a torque smaller than torque beaks generated by the internal combustion engine.

5. The drive train of claim 1 , wherein stiffnesses of the torsional vibration dampers are designed to be different.

Assignments (5)
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 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 25, 2013
From: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 029864/0985 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 23, 2010
From: WERNER, OLAF; GOPPELT, STEFAN
To: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
Reel/Frame 024280/0016 →