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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1999
Hans-Jürgen Drexl, Schonungen, DE;
Barbara Ester, Schweinfurt, DE;
Frank Hirschmann, Niederwerrn, DE;
Jürgen Liebler, Schweinfurt, DE;
Joachim Lindner, Dittelbrunn, DE;
Thomas Otto, Gochsheim, DE;
Jörg Pankoke, Bergrheinfeld, DE;
Winfried Stürmer, Enerbach, DE;
Mannesmann Sachs AG, Schweinfurt, DE;
Abstract
An actuating installation for a friction clutch arranged in the drive line between a drive unit and a transmission. The installation having an actuating arrangement for the actuation of the friction clutch and a clutch-pedal arrangement, which is connected to the actuating arrangement and has a clutch pedal, which, in a first operating state, is actuable according to a force-travel characteristic of a first type. The actuating installation has a signaling and/or protection device, which is in operative connection with or is operatively integrated in the clutch-pedal arrangement, so that, after the response of the signaling and/or protection device to a second operating state, the clutch pedal can be actuated only according to a force/travel characteristic of a second type, which differs significantly from the force/travel characteristic of the first type in order thus to indicate the second operating state.