Modular Control Device for a Transmission of a Commercial Vehicle
AssigneeKNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
InventorsJuergen SCHUDY, Daniel GEIS-ESSER
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Abstract
A control device is provided for a transmission having at least three shift actuators for the gear selection, a plurality of valves for actuating the shift actuators and a further plurality of valves for actuating the clutch. The shift actuators, the valves for actuating the shift actuators and the valves for actuating the clutch are combined in a common housing and that, within this housing, the shift actuators are grouped into a spatially connected shift group, the shift actuator valves are grouped into a spatially connected valve group and the clutch actuator valves are grouped into a further spatially connected valve group, wherein the shift group and the two valve groups and do not spatially overlap.
Claims18
A control device for a transmission, comprising:
- at least three shift actuators for gear selection;
- a first plurality of valves for actuating the shift actuators;
- a second plurality of valves for actuating a clutch of the transmission;
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- a common housing in which the at least three shift actuators, the first plurality of valves for actuating the shift actuators and the second plurality of valves for actuating the clutch are combined, wherein
- within the common housing, the shift actuators are grouped into a spatially connected shift group,
- the first plurality of valves are grouped into a first spatially connected valve group,
- the second plurality of valves are grouped into a second spatially connected valve group, and
- the shift group and the first and second spatially connected valve groups do not spatially overlap.
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