Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Temic Telefunken Microelectronic Gmbh

Gerhard Wagner

Wolfgang Zaiser

Frank Tietze

Gunter Jurgens

Ludger Kortenjann

Peter Hora

Gunter Fendt

Hans Merkle

Gerhard Spengler

Bernd Bertsche

Norbert Muller

Rainer Wuest

Gerhard Schilling

Henrich Wied

Achim Schifflechner

Lothar Hein

Martin Weber

Rainer Wust

Process for controlling a passenger protection system

In the case of a data transmission system for the exchange of digital data between a central processor unit and several peripheral control modules which are connected to the former by a bus system such that communication is enabled and which are provided for the purpose of activating one each, respectively, out of several safety devices such as airbags or belt tensioning systems, or similar devices, in a motor vehicle, and wherein these peripheral control modules are each provided with one buffer capacitor whose energy content is sufficient for operating the respective module, and the device driven by this module, within specifications over a limited period of time, the bus system is designed as a single wire system for the purpose of achieving a simple setup and reducing installation and fitting costs. In this single wire system the control modules are supplied with electrical operating energy, and digital data are transmintted, by the same line sections. In the data communications mode of the central processor unit and the control modules, the energy supply of the modules is effected by their buffer capacitors. The transmission of the digital data from the central processor unit to the control modules as well as the passing on of such data is effected by modulating a direct voltage whose maximum level U.sub.S is significantly lower than the maximum voltage level U.sub.B up to which the buffer capacitors can be recharged. The recharging of the buffer capacitors is effected in charge mode periods nested in between transmission operation phases of the central processor unit and the peripheral control modules.

Data transmission system

The invention provides an arrangement for detecting the temperature of an automatic gearbox which has a temperature sensor and a starter-interlock contact switch in the gearbox component and, externally with respect thereto, a gearbox control device to which signal information from the temperature sensor and from the starter-interlock contact switch can be fed via separate signal lines. The temperature sensor and the starter-interlock contact switch are connected to a common signal line which leads to the gearbox control device, specifically in a series or parallel circuit arrangement.

Device for detecting the temperature of a gearbox

An arrangement drives an automatic selector appliance of a change-speed gearbox of a motor vehicle into a position for emergency running in the event of a failure of an electronic control unit. A specified forward gear is selected, after the vehicle has come to rest, by manually moving a range selector valve into a P position and back into a D position.

Emergency running driving arrangement for a change-speed gearbox

In an arrangement and in a method for controlling an automatic shift device of a gear-change transmission, gear shifts which are initiated by the driver via the selector device and which would result in inadmissible engine speeds are prevented and it only becomes possible to permit them again via stored shift-line characteristic diagrams.

Arrangement and method for controlling an automatic shift device of a

A method and arrangement controls a regulating variable which determines the rotational speed difference of a clutch by selecting a phase with a curve of the regulating variable specified by a time function during a transient clutch condition. The beginning and the end of this phase are fixed by one or two influencing variables which are specific to the vehicle. One of the influencing variables is determined by the accelerator pedal actuation and another variable is determined by the clutch temperature.

Control method and arrangement for a regulating variable determining a

An automatic selector device for multi-gear change-speed gearbox includes a multi-way valve which can be driven into several valve positions each associated with one gear by a stepper motor whose operation depends on an electronic control unit. Each of the valve positions causes the appropriate gear to be selected. The multi-way valve is connected kinematically to a selector unit which can be actuated manually in order to block gears through the intermediary of a stop and an opposing stop.

Automatic selector device for multi-gear change-speed gearbox

An automatic selector device for a multi-gear change-speed gearbox permits selection of the gears by a respective gear apparatus, e.g., clutch or brake, which is actuated by a selector actuator. The operating pressure of the selector actuator is switched on and off in each case by a selector valve. The selector valves are connected to a multi-path control valve for actuation by way of a control pressure force, and the control valve is actuated by an electromotive valve actuator whose operation depends on an electronic control unit.

Automatic selector device for a multi-gear change-speed gearbox

A pressure supply to an automatic selector device of a change-speed gearbox, controls working pressure via a multi-path valve device. The working pressure is supplied either only to clutch actuators of two drive clutches located in the force path before the change-speed gearbox or to selector actuators for the actuation of selector clutches producing the force path within the change-speed gearbox. The clutch actuator of one drive clutch is subjected to a load-dependent main pressure in the latter case.

Configuration for the pressure supply to an automatic selector device of

A pressure medium actuated friction clutch with axially movable friction discs is engaged by at least one engagement spring and by an engagement actuator, and can be disengaged by a disengagement actuator In the steady-state engaged condition, only the spring force is effective.

Pressure medium actuated method and friction clutch with exclusively

An axial piston-type servomotor uses control connections on the working cylinder and corresponding control edges on the working piston, together with selector valve apparatus for controlling the working piston into a central stroke position.

Axial piston type pressure medium servomotor control device

A method and apparatus is provided for automatic shifting of a multi-path, toothed-wheel gear change box with at least two gearbox subunits in parallel to one another in the power transmission path between an input shaft and an output shaft and having loose wheels which can be coupled to their shaft in each case by a gearwheel clutch. A starting shift condition is selected if the vehicle is at a standstill, in which condition both the gearwheel clutch connected to the loose wheel of the gearwheel stage of the reverse gear and the gearwheel clutch of that gearwheel stage which forms the lowest of the gears, which are independent of the power-shift clutch of the gearbox subunit with the gearwheel stage of the reverse gear, are engaged.

Automatic shifting device of a multi-path toothed-wheel gear change box

A method for the automatic shifting of a multi-path toothed-wheel gear change box between two gears which are formed in a first gearbox subunit temporarily engages a middle gear formed in a second, parallel gearbox subunit. It is simultaneously ensured, by control of the working pressures for actuating the power-shift clutches connecting the gearbox subunits to the input shaft, that the speed characteristic of the input shaft shifting is essentially steady without remaining at the middle gear speed value.

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Remseck, Germany

Gerhard Wagner