Ford Motor Company Limited

Fritz Henken

Hartmut Roper

Peter Heider

Ernst Kohl

Dietmar Schubert

Martin Taal

Manfred Bilharz

Holm Schmitt

A device for transmitting the position of a drivebelt pulley of a continually variable automatic transmission to a valve arrangement includes a lever assembly extending between the valve and a variable displacement abutment connected to a sensor foot contacting the pulley. The position of the sensor foot is displaceable on an axial guide rod according to the position of a threaded bushing. The position of the pedal is adjustable from outside the transmission housing by rotating a tool that turns a setting sleeve rotatably fixed to the guide rod. As the guide rod turns, the bushing, engaged with threads on the sensor foot, changes the position of the abutment contacted by the lever assembly.

Device for transmitting an adjustable position of a drivebelt pulley in

A clutch pressure control valve for a hydraulically actuated friction clutch which includes a valve spool 5 disposed within a valve bore and having two control collars 6 and 7. The spool is acted upon at one end by a linear compression spring 8 and a speed dependent pressure signal, the spool serving to regulate the clutch pressure by regulating the free cross section at an outlet port disposed between its control collars. To avoid the second order variation of the clutch pressure with speed, the control collars 6 and 7 of the valve spool 5 have two different diameters and the spool 5 is disposed within a stepped bore 2, 3 and 4. The end of the linear compression spring 8, remote from the valve spool 5, abuts a reaction piston 9, which is disposed within the valve bore and is acted upon on one side by the speed dependent pressure signal and on the other side by a second, non-linear compression spring 11, which is compressed between the reaction 9 and a shoulder 12 in the valve bore.

Clutch-pressure control valve

In a valve system for a hydraulically controlled starting friction clutch, a clutch pressure control valve that controls the clutch pressure during the starting phase of the clutch engagement as a function of the torque requirement of the operator, and a valve that overrides the clutch pressure control valve as a function of the output speed wherein a clutch pressure control valve 17 has a valve arrangement that acts as a slippage time limiter, the latter comprising a startup valve 13, an accumulator 14 and an on-off valve 15. After a specific time affected by the selection of the throttle orifices 28a and 28b and the piston rod diameter 27, higher clutch pressure pk (D, L, R) is fed to the clutch pressure control valve.

Valve system for a hydraulically controlled starting friction clutch

A valve system for a hydraulically controlled starting friction clutch for motor vehicles, a clutch pressure control valve that controls the clutch pressure as a function of the torque demand of the driver, a valve arrangement that modulates a pressure dependent upon the engine speed and that delivers it to the clutch pressure control valve, a shuttle valve 11, a throttle orifice 12 and an accumulator 13 associated with the clutch pressure control valve 1. The shuttle valve 11 comprises a valve member 15 disposed in a valve bore 14 with three control lands 16, 17 and 18 and a spring 19 that acts upon one end of the valve member 15. A pressure signal Ppitot dependent upon the speed is applied by way of lines 21 and 22 between the first control land 16 and the second control land 17 and between the second control land 17 and the third control land 18 and is supplied by way of outlets 23 and 24 and a line 10 to the clutch pressure control valve 1. A pressure signal P.sub.tv dependent upon the torque acts by way of lines 26 and 27 upon both ends of the valve member 15, one line 27 having a throttle orifice 12 that reduces the pressure acting upon one end of the accumulator 13, the latter comprising a piston 29 in a valve bore 28 that is acted upon by a spring 30.

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Pulheim, Germany

Fritz Henken