Transfer case with controllable clutch
AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG
InventorsUnal Gazyakan, Detlef Baasch, Christoph Pelchen, Barbara Schmohl
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Abstract
A transfer case (1) with controllable clutch (5) for a motor vehicle, especially for a motor vehicle with part-time four-wheel drive, for distributing a driving torque coming in via a drive shaft (2) to at least two output shafts (3, 4). Hereby the output shaft (4) can be connected to the drive shaft (2) via the clutch (5), and the clutch (5) can be actuated via an electric motor (9) and a drive converter device (10) that is arranged between the electric motor (9) and the clutch (5) for converting a rotatory motion of the electric motor (9) into a translatory actuating motion for the clutch (5). The electric motor (9) is hereby designed as an induction motor.
Claims6
Transfer case (1) with controllable clutch (5) for a motor vehicle, especially for a motor vehicle with part-time four-wheel drive, for distributing a driving torque coming in via a drive shaft (2) to at least two output shafts (3, 4), wherein an output shaft (4) can be connected to the drive shaft (2) via the clutch (5) and the clutch (5) can be actuated by means of an electric motor (9) and a drive converter device (10) that is arranged between the electric motor (9) and the clutch for converting a rotatory motion of the electric motor (9) into a translatory actuating motion for the clutch (5), characterized in that the electric motor (9) is designed as an induction motor.
Transfer case pursuant to claim 3 [sic], characterized in that a housing (25) of the electric motor (9) is designed as a mount for the gear wheel (7).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.