Zf Sachs Ag

Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Thomas Busold

Wolfgang Grosspietsch

Jochen Kuhstrebe

Olaf Moseler

Angelika Ebert

Andreas Orlamünder

Axel Rohm

Dieter Kraxner

Cora Carlson

Thomas John

Thomas Wirth

Thomas Walter

Wolfgang Reisser

Eduard Steiner

Rainer Brand

Hans-J&uuml;rgen Schneider

A drive train for a motor vehicle includes a coupling device between a drive unit and a transmission for torque or moment transfer between the drive unit and the transmission. The coupling device has at least one coupling arrangement that can be activated by a pressure medium. The transmission can be activated through the use of a pressure medium by way of a dedicated actuator whereby, on the basis of a shared pump arrangement that is or can be driven by the drive unit, (i) the pressure medium can be provided for activation of the coupling arrangement, (ii) the operating medium can be conducted to the coupling device for the purpose of operating under the influence of the operating medium, and (iii) the pressure medium can be provided for activation of the transmission. The pump arrangement includes at least one pump, which can be controlled or adjusted with regard to output pressure and/or with regard to output flow rate.

Drive train for a motor vehicle

A clutch system includes a clutch arrangement between a drive unit and a transmission, a pump arrangement which supplies pressure medium to the clutch arrangement at a pressure and rate of flow, and an operating medium supply arrangement which supplies an operating medium to the clutch arrangement at a pressure which is less than the pressure of the pressure medium and a rate of flow which is greater than the rate of flow of the pressure medium. The operating medium supply arrangement includes a pressure receiving element which is movable in a housing and has at least one pressure receiving surface which is exposed to the pressure medium, and an interaction element which is coupled to move with the pressure receiving element and has at least one interaction surface which interacts with the operating medium to produce a flow of the operating medium.

Clutch system

A clutch system includes a clutch device for positioning in a drive train between a drive unit and a transmission, and an actuating unit for hydraulically actuating the clutch device by means of at least one hydraulic slave-cylinder. The actuating unit has a hydraulic-medium delivery device for delivering a pressurized hydraulic medium, and a valve assembly, whose mediation allows the hydraulic medium to be supplied to and discharged from the slave-cylinder. The valve assembly comprises at least one supply valve, located in a hydraulic connection, between the hydraulic-medium delivery device and the slave-cylinder and at least one discharge valve, which is separate from the supply valve and located in a hydraulic connection, between the slave-cylinder and a hydraulic-medium reservoir.

Hydraulically operated clutch system

A clutch system includes a clutch device with at least one clutch arrangement for installation in a motor vehicle drive train between a drive unit and a transmission. The at least one clutch arrangement is actuated by a slave cylinder using a pressure medium which is supplied to the clutch device by a first pump. A further medium is also supplied to the clutch device by a second pump arrangement as an operating medium used during operation of the clutch device. The further medium is selectively supplied as a pressure medium to the slave cylinder.

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