US 2026/0043470 A1Published application

Method for ensuring a desired shifting state

AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG

InventorsHannes WERNER, Stefan BEMETZ, Alexey RYABININ, Christian MITTELBERGER, Stefan BLATTNER, Xianghui SHEN, Mario STEINBORN, Matthias MÜLLER, Benjamin BERGER, Franz BITZER, Anton FRITZER

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Abstract

A method for ensuring a desired shifting state in a shiftable electric drivetrain (16) of a vehicle (15) is characterized in that the method includes an ascertaining process during which it is ensured that the desired shifting state corresponds to an actual shifting state.

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Dependent claims

A method for ensuring a desired shifting state in a shiftable electric drivetrain (16) of a vehicle (15), the method comprising:

ascertaining that the desired shifting state corresponds to an actual shifting state.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Application: 19/291,721Filed 6 Aug 2025
Priority: DE 10 2024 207 478.07 Aug 2024
Published: 12 Feb 2026
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F16H 59/68
Control inputs to control units of change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary motion: inputs being a function of gearing status
F16H 59/105
Comprising levers: consisting of electrical switches or sensors
F16H 61/12
Control functions within control units of change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary motion ; Control of exclusively fluid…
F16H 2059/6823
Inputs being a function of gearing status: sensing neutral state of the transmission

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