Transmission
A transmission which has drive input and output shafts, a housing, two planetary gearsets (PR 1 , PR 2 ), and at least three shifting elements which produce three gears or ratios. A ring gear of the gearset (PR 1 ) and the input shaft are connected for forming a first shaft, a carrier of gearset (PR 1 ) and the output shaft are connected for forming a second shaft, a ring gear of gearset (PR 2 ) forms a third shaft, sun gears of gearsets (PR 1 , PR 2 ) are connected for forming a fourth shaft, and carrier of gearset (PR 2 ) couples the housing. The first shifting element is arranged in the force flow between the third shaft and the housing, the third shifting element is arranged in the force flow between the second and third shafts, and the second shifting element is arranged in the force flow either between the first and second shafts or the second and fourth shafts.
1. A transmission comprising:
a drive input shaft (AN),
a drive output shaft (AB),
a housing (G),
at least first and second planetary gearsets (PR 1 , PR 2 ), and each of the first and the second planetary gearsets comprising a ring gear, a sun gear and a carrier,
at least first, second and third shifting elements (B 03 , K 12 , K 23 ), and selective engagement of the first, the second and the third shifting elements producing various transmission ratios between the drive input shaft (AN) and the drive output shaft (AB) such that at least three gears are implementable,
the drive input shaft (AN) and the ring gear (H 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) being connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming a first shaft ( 1 ),
the drive output shaft (AB) and the carrier (ST 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) being connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming the second shaft ( 2 ),
the ring gear (H 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) forming a third shaft ( 3 ),
the sun gear (S 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) and the sun gear (S 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) both being connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming a fourth shaft ( 4 ),
the carrier (ST 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) being coupled to the housing (G) of the transmission in a rotationally fixed manner,
the first shifting element (B 03 ) being arranged in a force flow between the third shaft ( 3 ) and the housing (G) of the transmission,
the third shifting element (K 23 ) being arranged in a force flow between the second shaft ( 2 ) and the third shaft ( 3 ), and
the second shifting element (K 12 ) being arranged in a force flow either between the first shaft ( 1 ) and the second shaft ( 2 ) or between the second shaft ( 2 ) and the fourth shaft ( 4 ).
2. The transmission according to claim 1 , wherein a first gear is implemented by engagement of the third shifting element (K 23 ),
a second gear is implemented by engagement of the first shifting element (B 03 ), and
a third gear is implemented by engagement of he second shifting element (K 12 ).
3. The transmission according to claim 1 , wherein the first, the second and the third shifting elements are each frictional shifting elements.
4. The transmission according to claim 1 , wherein the second shifting element (K 12 ) and the third shifting element (K 23 ) are each interlocking shifting elements and the first shifting element (B 03 ) is a frictional shifting element.
5. The transmission according to claim 1 , wherein the second shifting element (K 12 ) and the third shifting element (K 23 ) are combined in a shifting packet as a dual shifting element (DS).
6. A transmission comprising:
a drive input shaft (AN),
a drive output shaft (AB),
a housing (G),
at least first and second planetary gearsets (PR 1 , PR 2 ), and each of the first and the second planetary gearsets comprising a ring gear, a sun gear and a carrier,
at least first, second and third shifting elements (B 03 , K 12 , K 23 ), and selective engagement of the first, the second and the third shifting elements producing various transmission ratios between the drive input shaft (AN) and the drive output shaft (AB) such that at least three gears are implementable,
the ring gear (H 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) forming a first shaft ( 1 ).
the drive output shaft (AB) and the carrier (ST 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) being connected to one another in a rotationaHy fixed manner for forming the second shaft ( 2 ),
the ring gear (H 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) forming a third shaft ( 3 ),
the sun gear (S 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) and the sun gear (S 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) both being connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming a fourth shaft ( 4 ), p 1 the carrier (ST 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) being coupled to the housing (G) of the transmission in a rotationally fixed manner,
the first shifting element (B 03 ) being arranged in a force flow between the third shaft ( 3 ) and the housing (G) of the transmission,
the third shifting element (K 23 ) being arranged in a force flow between the second shaft ( 2 ) and the third shaft ( 3 ), and
the second shifting element (K 12 ) being arranged in a force flow either between the first shaft ( 1 ) and the second shaft ( 2 ) or between the second shaft ( 2 ) and the fourth shaft ( 4 ),
a third planetary gearset (PR 3 ) being connected upstream of the transmission, a sun gear (S 3 ) of the third planetary gearset (PR 3 ) forming a fifth shaft ( 5 ) of the transmission connected with the drive input shaft (AN), a ring gear (H 3 ) of the third planetary gearset (PR 3 ) being a rotationally fixed element, and a carrier (ST 3 ) of the third planetary gearset (PR 3 ) being connected to the first shaft ( 1 ) of the transmission in a rotationally fixed manner.
7. The transmission according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission is a main transmission of a group transmission, which comprises an upstream group in driving connection upstream of the main transmission.
8. A method of operating a transmission having a drive input shaft (AN), a drive output shaft (AB), and a housing (G), at least first and second planetary gearsets (PR 1 , PR 2 ), and each of the first and the second planetary gearsets comprises a ring gear, a sun gear and a carrier, at least first, second and third shifting elements (B 03 , K 12 , K 23 ), and selective engagement of the first, the second and the third shifting elements produces various transmission ratios between the drive input shaft (AN) and the drive output shaft (AB) such that at least three gears are implementable, the drive input shaft (AN) and the ring gear (H 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) are connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming a first shaft ( 1 ), the drive output shaft (AB) and the carrier (ST 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) are connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming the second shaft ( 2 ), the ring gear (H 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) forms a third shaft ( 3 ), the sun gear (S 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) and the sun gear (S 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) are both connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming a fourth shaft ( 4 ), the carrier (ST 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) is coupled to the housing (G) of the transmission in a rotationally fixed manner, the first shifting element (B 03 ) is arranged in a force flow between the third shaft ( 3 ) and the housing (G) of the transmission, the third shifting element (K 23 ) is arranged in the force flow between the second shaft ( 2 ) and the third shaft ( 3 ), and the second shifting element (K 12 ) is arranged in a force flow either between the first shaft ( 1 ) and the second shaft ( 2 ) or between the second shaft ( 2 ) and the fourth shaft ( 4 ), the method comprising the steps of:
implementing one of the at least three gears by engaging one of the first, the second and the third shifting elements and disengaging the other two of the first, the second and the third shifting elements, and
carrying out a gearshift to an either adjacent higher gear or an adjacent lower gear by engaging one previously disengaged shifting element and disengaging the previously engaged shifting element.
9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising the step of carrying out at least a traction upshift from a first gear to a second gear as a powershift,
a traction downshift from the second gear to the first gear as a powershift,
an overdrive upshift from the second gear to a third gear as a powershift, and
an overdrive downshift from the third gear to the second gear as a powershift.
10. The transmission according to claim 1 , the transmission is incorporated in a drive-train for a motor vehicle.
11. The transmission according to claim 10 , wherein a drive aggregate is an electric machine and, depending upon a rotational drive direction of the electric machine, the three gears are implemented as either forward gears or reverse gears.
12. The transmission according to claim 11 , wherein the drive-train is a hybrid drive-train and comprises an internal combustion engine.
13. A transmission comprising:
a drive input shaft (AN),
a drive output shaft (AB),
a housing (G),
at least first and second planetary gearsets (PR 1 , PR 2 ), and each of the first and the second planetary gearsets comprising a ring gear, a sun gear and a carrier,
at least first, second and third shifting elements (B 03 , K 12 , K 23 ), and selective engagement of the first, the second and the third shifting elements producing various transmission ratios between the drive input shaft (AN) and the drive output shaft (AB) such that at least three gears are implementable,
the drive input shaft (AN) and the ring gear (H 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) being directly connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming a first shaft ( 1 ),
the drive output shaft (AB) and the carrier (ST 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) being directly connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming the second shaft ( 2 ),
the ring gear (H 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) forming a third shaft ( 3 ),
the sun gear (S 1 ) of the first planetary gearset (PR 1 ) and the sun gear (S 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) both being directly connected to one another in a rotationally fixed manner for forming a fourth shaft ( 4 ),
the carrier (ST 2 ) of the second planetary gearset (PR 2 ) being directly coupled to the housing (G) of the transmission in a rotationally fixed manner,
the first shifting element (B 03 ) being arranged in a force flow between the third shaft ( 3 ) and the housing (G) of the transmission,
the third shifting element (K 23 ) being arranged in a force flow between the second shaft ( 2 ) and the third shaft ( 3 ), and
the second shifting element (K 12 ) being arranged in a force flow either between the first shaft ( 1 ) and the second shaft ( 2 ) or between the second shaft ( 2 ) and the fourth shaft ( 4 ).