IP Library Granted Patent US 11,047,427
Granted Patent B2
US 11,047,427 · App. 15/914,476 · Granted Jun 29, 2021

Disk, disk clutch with such a disk, double clutch device with such a disk clutch, and method for producing a disk

Inventors: Patrick Carsten Nikola (Mannheim, DE); Martin Gerlach (Neulussheim, DE); Jochen Alois Rudoff Seufert (Brühl, DE); Christian Bernhard Halm (Walldorf, DE); Michael Obergasser (Friedrichshafen, DE); Alen Pelzer (Tettnang/Kau, DE); Wolfgang Reisser (Rutesheim, DE); Arne Krueger (Karlsruhe, DE); Steffen Winterhalder (Ditzingen, DE); Dirk Oliver Lautenschlager (Ostfildern, DE); Michael Funk (Stuttgart, DE); Gerd Bofinger (Vaihingen/Enz., DE)
Assignees: BorgWamer Inc.; Dr. Ing. H.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft; ZF Friedrichshafen AG
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Patent No.
US 11,047,427
App. No.
15/914,476
Granted
Jun 29, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The disclosure relates to a disk ( 38 ) for a disk clutch ( 26 ) comprising an annular base element ( 76 ) which has a toothing ( 78 ) with multiple teeth ( 80 ) for achieving a rotary driving engagement with a disk carrier ( 34 ), wherein the base element ( 76 ) has at least one hardened region ( 96 ) in which the base element ( 76 ) is designed as harder than in the tooth flank regions ( 98, 100 ) of the teeth ( 80 ). In addition, the disclosure relates to a disk clutch ( 26 ) with such a disk ( 38 ), a double clutch device ( 2 ) with such a disk clutch ( 26 ), and a method for producing such a disk ( 38 ).

Claims (13)

1. A disk ( 38 ) for a disk clutch ( 26 ) comprising an annular base element ( 76 ) which has a toothing ( 78 ) with multiple teeth ( 80 ) for achieving a rotary driving engagement with a disk carrier ( 34 ), characterized in that the base element ( 76 ) has at least one hardened region ( 96 ) in which the base element ( 76 ) is designed as harder than in tooth flank regions ( 98 , 100 ) of the teeth ( 80 ) and characterized in that the hardened region ( 96 ) is arranged at a distance (b) to the tooth flanks ( 90 , 92 ) of the teeth ( 80 ), wherein the distance (b) is at least 3 mm.

2. The disk ( 38 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the hardened region ( 96 ) is arranged in a distance (a) to the tooth roots of the teeth ( 80 ), wherein the distance (a) is at least 3 mm.

3. The disk ( 38 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the toothing ( 78 ) is an external toothing.

4. The disk ( 38 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the base element ( 76 ) is surface hardened in the hardened region ( 96 ) using gas nitriding gas nitrocarburizing plasma nitriding, or plasma nitrocarburizing.

5. A disk clutch ( 26 ) with at least one disk ( 38 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the disk ( 38 ) is in rotary driving engagement via the toothing ( 78 ) with a disk carrier ( 34 ), wherein the toothing ( 78 ) is softer than the base element ( 76 ) in the hardened region ( 96 ), or has the same hardness as the tooth flank region ( 98 , 100 ).

6. A double clutch device ( 2 ) for arranging in a drivetrain between a drive unit ( 18 ) and a transmission ( 20 ), having a first disk clutch ( 26 ) assigned to a first transmission input shaft ( 22 ) for selective torque transmission between the drive unit ( 18 ) and the first transmission input shaft ( 22 ) and a second disk clutch ( 28 ) assigned to a second transmission input shaft ( 24 ) for selective torque transmission between the drive unit ( 18 ) and the second transmission input shaft ( 24 ), characterized in that the double clutch device ( 2 ) is designed as a concentric double clutch device ( 2 ) and only the first disk clutch ( 26 ) which is a radially outer disk clutch of the double clutch device ( 2 ) is designed as the disk clutch ( 26 ) according to claim 5 .

7. A method for producing a disk ( 38 ) according claim 1 comprising the method steps:

providing an annular base element ( 76 ) which has a toothing ( 78 ) with multiple teeth ( 80 ),

covering at least the tooth flank regions ( 98 , 100 ) of the toothing ( 78 ), and

surface hardening the base element ( 76 ) using gas nitriding, gas nitrocarburizing, plasma nitriding, or plasma nitrocarburizing to create at least one hardened region ( 96 ), in which the base element ( 76 ) is designed as harder than in the tooth flank regions ( 98 , 100 ) of the toothing ( 78 ).

8. The disk ( 38 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the teeth ( 80 ) are hardened to achieve a lower hardness than in the hardened region ( 96 ), or are unhardened in contrast to the hardened region ( 96 ).

9. The disk ( 38 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the base element ( 76 ) is manufactured or made from metal or steel, and the disk ( 38 ) is designed as a disk ( 38 ) without a friction lining or is designed as a steel disk.

10. The disk clutch ( 26 ) with at least one disk ( 38 ) according to claim 5 , wherein the toothing ( 78 ) is not hardened, not nitrided, and not nitrocarburized.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 17, 2018
From: NIKOLA, PATRICK CARSTEN; GERLACH, MARTIN; SEUFERT, JOCHEN ALOIS RUDOFF; HALM, CHRISTIAN
To: BORGWARNER INC.
Reel/Frame 046373/0991 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 17, 2018
From: OBERGASSER, MICHAEL; PELZER, ALEN
To: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
Reel/Frame 046374/0087 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 17, 2018
From: REISSER, WOLFGANG; KRUEGER, ARNE; WINTERHALDER, STEFFEN; LAUTENSCHLAGER, DIRK OLIVER; FUNK, MICHAEL; BOFINGER, GERD
To: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 046374/0172 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 102017002231.3 · Mar 8, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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