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Schaeffler Technologies Ag & Co .kg

Franz Benz

Marco Grethel

Eric Müller

Martin Staudinger

Felix Dreher

Hanjo Nissen

A hydraulic supply system for a hydraulically-operated automatic transmission includes a primary pump that is driven by an internal combustion engine of a vehicle. An electrically-driven auxiliary pump is provided to supply the system with hydraulic pressure when the primary pump is off or to supplement the primary pump when the primary pump does not deliver sufficient pressure. A discharge line from the auxiliary pump is connected to a control line of the hydraulic supply system and to the hydraulic system supply line under system pressure. Check valves are provided in the respective lines from the auxiliary pump. An additional check valve is provided in a line that extends from the control line to a torque sensing chamber of the automatic transmission.

Hydraulic supply system for a hydraulically-actuated automatic transmission

A hydraulic pressure reservoir having at least one pressure chamber formed between two opposed, movable inner boundary members. Each inner boundary members includes a spring cover and a diaphragm spring. An outer boundary member peripherally surrounds the movable inner boundary members and has a U-shaped cross section along at least a part of its periphery to axially support the diaphragm springs in a fixed axial position. The outer boundary member can be formed in several pieces that are held together by interconnections or by a surrounding outer tensioning member.

Hydraulic pressure reservoir

To disengage a clutch using the clutch actuation in the event of a failure of the system, having pedal force-assisted pressurization of the hydraulic system, composed of two hydraulic circuits, a master cylinder and a slave cylinder being essentially disposed in the first circuit, and an electromotor-driven pump being in the second circuit, and the two circuits communicating with one another in a mutually controllable fashion via a valve block having a pressure slide valve and a pressure-valve spring, an emergency release mechanism is provided in the hydraulic system.

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