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Granted Patent B2
US 11,402,019 · App. 16/845,136 · Granted Aug 2, 2022

Parking lock arrangement

Inventors: Stefan Gebert (Ebern, DE); Lothar Hein (Ebern, DE); Rudolf Graner (Ebern, DE); Egid Macht (Ebern, DE)
Assignee: FTE automotive GmbH
F16H63/3433B60T1/005F16H63/3441F16H63/3475F16H63/38
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Patent No.
US 11,402,019
App. No.
16/845,136
Granted
Aug 2, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A parking lock arrangement for an electromotively driven motor vehicle, including a parking lock wheel which is rotationally conjoint with respect to a shaft in the drive train and which has multiple cutouts, a lock element which is movable between a locking position and a release position along a movement path and which, in the locking position, engages in a form-fitting manner into a cutout of the parking lock wheel and, in the release position, is out of engagement with the cutouts of the parking lock wheel, a parking lock actuator which is operatively connected to the lock element and wherein the lock element is adjustable between the locking position and the release position along its movement path. The movement path of the lock element can be rectilinear.

Claims (14)

1. A parking lock arrangement for an electromotively driven motor vehicle, comprising:

a parking lock wheel which is rotationally conjoint with respect to a shaft in the drive train and which has multiple cutouts,

a lock element which is movable between a locking position and a release position along a movement path and which, in the locking position, engages in a form-fitting manner into one of the cutouts of the parking lock wheel and, in the release position, is out of engagement with the cutouts of the parking lock wheel,

a parking lock actuator which is operatively connected to the lock element and by way of which the lock element is adjustable between the locking position and the release position along a movement path of the lock element, the movement of the lock element being rectilinear, the parking lock actuator being an electromagnetic actuator comprising a reversing solenoid acting in both directions and having two axially adjacently situated coils which surround a solenoid plunger connected fixedly to the lock element,

wherein a sensor is arranged for position detection of the lock element and for the purpose of connecting the coils of the reversing solenoid and the sensor to an external control unit, the parking lock actuator having a common electrical interface.

2. The parking lock arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the lock element is a pin or bar which is mounted in an axially displaceable manner in a frame or housing of the parking lock actuator.

3. The parking lock arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the common electrical interface is integrated in a rear region of the housing of the parking lock actuator.

4. The parking lock arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the cutouts in the parking lock wheel are formed in an axial direction, and wherein the lock element is mounted so as to be displaceable parallel to the axis of rotation of the parking lock wheel and, in the locking position, engages axially into one of the cutouts.

5. The parking lock arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the cutouts in the parking lock wheel are formed in a radial direction, and wherein the lock element is mounted so as to be displaceable perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the parking lock wheel and, in the locking position, engages radially into one of the cutouts.

6. The parking lock arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the lock element is able to be locked in the locking position and in the release position in each case by locking means which act in at least one of a form-fitting and force-fitting manner.

7. The parking lock arrangement according to claim 6 , wherein the locking means comprise a locking body which is loaded by a compression spring, in which the locking body, in the locking position and in the release position, engages, in each case in a latching manner, into a cutout, which is connected fixedly to the lock element.

8. The parking lock arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein at least one sensor is arranged for position detection of the parking lock wheel.

9. An electromotively driven motor vehicle, comprising a parking lock arrangement according to claim 1 .

10. The parking lock arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein two magnetically acting position sensors respond to a position magnet fastened on an actuation rod fixedly linked to the plunger and the lock element.

Assignments (2)
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2025
From: FTE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH; FTE ASIA GMBH
To: VALEO POWERTRAIN GMBH
Reel/Frame 069875/0816 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 10, 2020
From: GEBERT, STEFAN; HEIN, LOTHAR; GRANER, RUDOLF; MACHT, EGID
To: FTE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
Reel/Frame 052362/0288 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2019 110 384.3 · Apr 18, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200332894A1 · Oct 22, 2020