Torque transmission device
AssigneeBorg-Warner Corporation
InventorsStefan Pastoors, Matthias Gerhard Veit
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a torque transmission device (2) comprising a planetary gear train (22), which has a rotatable component (28), a stationary housing (18), and a clutch device (32) for selective coupling of the component (28) with the stationary housing (18). The clutch device (32) has a friction-locking first clutch (34) and a positive-locking second clutch (36), wherein the component (28) may be coupled to the stationary housing (18) via the first clutch (34) before a coupling by means of the second clutch (36).
Claims18
A torque transmission device (2) comprising a planetary gear train (22), which has a rotatable component (28), a stationary housing (18), and a clutch device (32) for selective coupling of the component (28) with the stationary housing (18), characterized in that the clutch device (32) has a friction-locking first clutch (34) and a positive-locking second clutch (36), wherein the component (28) may be coupled to the stationary housing (18) via the first clutch (34) before a coupling by means of the second clutch (36),
- wherein the first and second clutches (34, 36) are actuatable via a common actuating element (58) or the first clutch (34) is actuatable via a first actuating element (72) and the second clutch (36) is actuatable via a second actuating element (74), wherein the common actuating element (58) is designed as a hydraulically drivable actuating piston or the first actuating element (72) and the second actuating element (74) are designed as hydraulically drivable actuating pistons (76, 78), and
- wherein a first pressure chamber (80) is assigned to the first actuating piston (76) and a second pressure chamber (82) is assigned to the second actuating piston (78), wherein the first pressure chamber (80) is delimited at least partially by the second actuating piston (78) and a reset force may be generated on the second actuating piston (78) by means of a hydraulic pressure within the first pressure chamber (80), or the second pressure chamber (82) is at least partially delimited by the first actuating piston (76) and a reset force on the first actuating piston (76) may be generated by means of a hydraulic pressure within the second pressure chamber (82).
A torque transmission device (2) comprising a planetary gear train (22), which has a rotatable component (28), a stationary housing (18), and a clutch device (32) for selective coupling of the component (28) with the stationary housing (18), characterized in that the clutch device (32) has a friction-locking first clutch (34) and a positive-locking second clutch (36), wherein the component (28) may be coupled to the stationary housing (18) via the first clutch (34) before a coupling by means of the second clutch (36),
- wherein the first clutch (34) is a disk clutch comprising a disk set (38), a first disk carrier (44) is connected rotationally fixedly to the component (28), and a second disk carrier (48) is connected rotationally fixedly to the housing (18), wherein the first disk carrier (44) has a first rotary spline (46) for first disks (40) of the disk set (38) and the second disk carrier (48) has a second rotary spline (50) for second disks (42) of the disk set (38), and
- wherein the second clutch (36) has a movable coupling element (54) which may be brought into rotary driving engagement with the first or the second rotary spline (46;
- 50), and, is permanently in rotary driving engagement with the second or first rotary spline (50;
- 46), or is designed as one piece with the second actuating element (74) or the common actuating element (58).
A torque transmission device (2) comprising a planetary gear train (22), which has a rotatable component (28), a stationary housing (18), and a clutch device (32) for selective coupling of the component (28) with the stationary housing (18), characterized in that the clutch device (32) has a friction-locking first clutch (34) and a positive-locking second clutch (36), wherein the component (28) may be coupled to the stationary housing (18) via the first clutch (34) before a coupling by means of the second clutch (36),
- wherein the planetary gear train (22) has a sun gear (24), a ring gear (26), and a planet gear carrier (28) with at least one planet gear (30) which is in rotary driving engagement with the sun gear (24) and the ring gear (26), wherein the sun gear (24), the ring gear (26), or the planet gear carrier (28) forms the component (28), and
- wherein a second component (26) is rotationally fixedly to the housing (18), wherein the second component (26) is formed by the ring gear (26).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.