Fichtel & Sachs Ag

Sachs Systemtechnik Gmbh

Mannesmann Sachs Ag

Zf Sachs Ag

Hans Fliege

Franz Nagler

Dieter Lutz

Wolfgang Thieler

Thomas Otto

Horst Oppitz

Gerd Brunken

Volker Eibl

Hans-J&uuml;rgen Drexl

Christoph Thielen

J&uuml;rgen Schmitt

Joachim Dluhosch

A connecting arrangement for a clutch-release mechanism which is concentric with respect to a longitudinal axis of a clutch arrangement includes a connecting line, which can be connected to the clutch-release mechanism for the purpose of control, and a fastening device for the detachable connection of the clutch-release mechanism to a support element by relative rotation between the clutch-release mechanism and the support element.

Connecting arrangement for a clutch-release mechanism

In an actuation device for a friction clutch which is arranged in the drivetrain of a motor vehicle between a drive unit and a transmission, comprising a pressure medium force cylinder arrangement by means of which the friction clutch can be actuated via a release member, a measuring arrangement which detects an actual release, a control/regulating valve arrangement which is connected with a pressure medium source, with a pressure compensation opening or a pressure compensation reservoir and with the pressure medium force cylinder arrangement and which is controllable electrically, by means of which valve arrangement the pressure medium force cylinder arrangement can be actuated depending on the actual release and on a reference release which can be predetermined, the control/regulating valve arrangement can be actuated via control/regulating electronics depending on the actual release, on an electrically presettable command variable and on a characteristic line converting the command variable into the reference release, wherein several different characteristic lines are provided which can be selectively activated depending on a desired driving behavior and/or depending on driving states and/or operating states of the vehicle for actuating the valve arrangement.

Actuation device for a friction clutch

An actuation system for a friction clutch installed in the drive train of a motor vehicle between a drive unit and a transmission includes a pressure medium-powered cylinder assembly and a pilot/automatic control valve assembly. An auxiliary actuating assembly includes an auxiliary actuating valve assembly, which can be switched into a pressure medium feed position, wherein the pressure medium-powered cylinder assembly can be connected with the pressure medium source or with a separate auxiliary pressure medium source for emergency actuation of the clutch, and into a pressure medium discharge position, wherein the cylinder assembly can be connected with a pressure compensation port or with a pressure compensation tank.

Clutch actuation system with auxiliary actuating assembly

The components of a vehicle, in particular of a non-rail vehicle, which is powered by an electric motor traction propulsion system, can be protected against the damaging effects of accelerations which occur during operation by reducing the operating power supplied to a propulsion motor of the vehicle when the accelerations which occur on certain components of the vehicle reach values which pose an immediate danger to these components or reduce their useful life. For this purpose, a traction propulsion system which includes at least one electric motor, a power supply device which supplies the electric motor with operating power and an electronic switching system to control the operating power supplied to the electric motor is equipped with acceleration sensor means and with evaluation means, whereby the acceleration sensor means supply at least one variable which is a function of the acceleration of at least one component of the vehicle, and the evaluation means respond to this variable and control the electronic switching system so that at least in a portion of the range of values of the acceleration-dependent variable, the operating power supplied to the electric motor is reduced in accordance with a specified characteristic.

Hybrid non-rail tired vehicle with safety mechanism

A propulsion system for a vehicle comprising an electric motor, circuit breakers which switch field windings of the electric motor, as well as a cooling device which cools the field windings and the circuit breakers by its coolant circuit. The electric motor is realized in the form of a first modular unit which is mechanically functional in itself. The circuit breakers are assembled in at least one second modular unit, which is connected firmly to the first modular unit to form a propulsion unit. The individual modular units can be separated from one another and are connected to one another both by detachable electrical interface connections and also by detachable coolant interface connections. This construction makes it possible to selectively expand the propulsion unit by adding additional modular units, or in the event of the failure or malfunction of individual modular units to replace the modular units without having to replace the entire propulsion unit.

Propulsion system and kit for hybrid motor vehicle

An electric road motor vehicle with a switchable winding electric motor propulsion system, a switchable winding electric motor propulsion system in an electric road motor vehicle, and a switchable winding electric motor propulsion system for a motor vehicle. For the optimization of an electric motor propulsion system of a vehicle, the electric motor equipped with a rotary field winding is connected through a switching system to an electronic converter, so that due to the switching system, the number of phase windings of the rotary field winding to be connected to the individual output connections can be changed. The switching system is controlled by a control circuit through a actuator. The control circuit also controls the converter and deactivates the driver currents fed to the rotary field winding, while it switches over the switching system through the actuator. The switching system can thereby be made simpler and smaller. The switching system including the actuator is combined into a unit with the electric motor.

Electric road motor vehicle with switchable winding electric motor

For controlling a central locking installation and/or theft alarm of a motor vehicle a switch lock installation is provided which comprises at least one lock with mechanical tumblers for the mechanical locking and unlocking of a door or a bonnet of the motor vehicle. The tumblers form a first key secret. The key which blocks the tumblers carries an electrically, magnetically or optically readable information carrier for a second, operationally variable key secret. A reading device detects the information of the second key secret in a position in which the mechanical tumblers of the lock are released. If the key is moved in the opening direction of the lock, a control circuit compares the information read by the reading device with an ideal information stored in a memory circuit and controls the central locking installation and/or theft alarm accordingly. If the key is moved in the closure direction of the lock, then the information of the second key secret read by the reading device is taken as new ideal information into the memory circuit.

Switch lock installation

The locking system comprises a magnetic key having a plurality of parallel rows of magnets arranged in a pattern one behind the other and forming a locking code of the magnetic key, and a reading device into which the magnetic key can be inserted in the direction of the rows of its magnets. The reading device comprises magnetic field sensors for the serial reading of the locking code formed by the magnets. A control circuit which compares the information of the read locking code with the information of a predetermined locking code generates a control signal in dependence upon the conformity or difference of the locking codes. At least the magnets of the pattern positions of each row which are immediately adjacent in the row direction are oppositely polarized. For each row of magnets the reading device comprises two magnetic field sensors of which the first magnetic field sensor responds selectively to magnetic fields of a given polarity and the second magnetic field sensor responds selectively to magnetic fields with opposite polarity. The output signals of the magnetic field sensors are OR-linked with one another for the production of a clock signal. In order to prevent tampering in the insertion of the key into the reading device, the clock pulses are counted in the insertion of the key and compared with a predetermined number.

Magnetically coded locking system

An operating mechanism for a lock and the like is operated by means of a key on which permanent magnets may be secured in available magnet positions of a fixed pattern of such positions, selected positions being occupied by magnets. A reading device includes a reader body and a guide for guiding the key into a predetermined position in which respective sensors are contiguously adjacent each available magnet position and respond to the presence of a magnet in the adjacent position by generating an electrical signal. The several signals are compared with a reference signal, and an operating signal is generated by a comparator connected to the sensors and to the source of the reference signal when the sensor signals agree with the reference signal.

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