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US 8,370,037 B2Granted
Method for the protection of an automatically actuated clutch of a vehicle from overload
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsBjoern Stehle, Klaus Henneberger
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Abstract
A method for the protection of an automatically actuated clutch of a vehicle from overload, comprising the steps of determining a driving situation of the vehicle, continuously determining the energy input in the clutch, and, preventing or reducing an overload state via targeted intervention in vehicle management as a function of the determined driving situation and the input energy.
Claims13
A method for the protection of an automatically actuated clutch of a vehicle from overload, comprising:
- determining a driving situation of the vehicle;
- continuously determining the energy input in the clutch;
- and,
- preventing or reducing an overload state via targeted intervention in vehicle management as a function of the determined driving situation and the input energy, wherein various targeted interventions in the vehicle management are made as a function of prescribed threshold values of the energy input in the clutch or of the expected energy input, it being possible to calculate the threshold values as a function of the current temperature of the clutch.
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