Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Karl-Hermann Ketteler

Bernd Schepperle

Andreas Fuessl

Detlef Baasch

Eckhardt Lübke

Christoph Pelchen

Hubert Remmlinger

Notker Amann

Barbara Schmohl

Ünal Gazyakan

Claus Granzow

Kai Heinrich

Jürgen Kett

Marc Wiesenthal

Stephan Scharfenberg

Wolfgang Schön

Thomas Winstel

Guenther Horsak

Johannes Schmid

Peter Feulner

Allan Muschel

Günther Horsak

A motor vehicle, with a drive train comprising a drive assembly, a transmission and wheels (). The drive train further including actuators () for adjusting at least one of the tracking and/or the camber. Sensors (), for determining the tracking and/or camber, are integrated in the motor vehicle, and a control unit () only operates the actuators (), to adjust the tracking and/or the camber, when the drive train is in a defined actual static condition.

Motor vehicle and method for adjusting assemblies thereof on the drive train side

Method for operating an adjustable stabilizer arrangement including an actuator, which applies actuator torque to stabilizer sections as a function of a command variable to influence the rolling movement of a motor vehicle body, where sensors are used to detect the movement of the motor vehicle body and the movements of the wheels. An operating condition of the actuator supplies a variable which can be used to determine the actuator torque, upon which is superimposed an adjustment signal for the actuator, and where the variable is modified by a weighting factor.

Method for operating an actuator, especially an electric actuator in a stabilizer arrangement

The invention relates to a regulating mechanism for operating an actuator or connecting element () of an automatic transmission. The regulating mechanism has an actuator (), a regulating mechanism (), a transmission element (), and an output element (). According to the present invention, the actuator () is configured as a three phase motor, advantageously as an asynchronous motor. The torque (M) of the actuator () is converted into an actuating force (S) in the transmission element (), which is then applied to a regulated and or connecting element ().

Regulating device for a regulating or control element

An electromechanically activated motor vehicle transmission () such as an automated manual transmission () or a transfer case (). This transmission includes at least a transmission housing (), an electromagnetic selecting or shifting device () and an electric motor () by which the selecting or shifting device () can be actuated. In the inventive motor vehicle transmission (), the electric motor () of the selecting or shifting mechanism () arranged within the transmission housing () and the motor housing () of the electric motor () is designed so that it corresponds to a portion of the transmission housing ().

Vehicle gearbox with an integrated electric motor

A selector drive for automatic manual transmissions has an electric motor, the rotational motion of which can be transmitted to the selector mechanism for the selection of a selector position by way of a mechanical transmission chain. An electric motor () of the mechanical transmission chain is an electric motor with defined step width, whereby the required step number for the selection of the selector position in the selector mechanism can be determined through fixed geometrical conditions or distances according to the stipulations of the individual step angle of the electric motor and the distance between the selector positions.

Selector drive for automatic manual transmission of motor vehicles

A switching system, preferably for use in the power supply of motor vehicles, and having one chargeable energy memory of a specific voltage level and consumers situated in the circuit of the energy memory is further developed so that a significant power load is thoroughly prevented even in the case of a high momentary power requirement of the electric consumers. The energy memory is designed for this purpose as power-limiting primary memory () to ensure the operation of a first group of consumers (). The switching system further has a secondary energy memory () chargeable proceeding from the primary energy memory () which makes energy available to a second group of consumers () so that during energy delivery from the secondary energy memory () to the consumers () of the second group a feedback to the primary energy memory () is thoroughly prevented even during loading of the same by consumers () of the first group.

Switching system to make energy available to electric consumers of different energy requirement

A distributor gear () with an adjustable coupling device () for a vehicle, in particular for a vehicle with a shiftable all-wheel drive is described for the distribution of an incoming drive torque via a drive shaft () to at least two output shafts (). It is moreover provided that an output shaft () can be connected via the coupling device () with the drive shaft () and that the coupling device () can be actuated via an electric motor () and a drive converter device () located between the electric motor () and the coupling device () for the conversion of rotary movement of the electric motor () into a translatory actuation movement for the coupling device (). The electric motor () is incorporated into a gear ().

Distributor gear with adjustable coupling

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Markdorf, Germany

Karl-Hermann Ketteler