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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2004
Ünal Gazyakan, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Detlef Baasch, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Christoph Pelchen, Tettnang, DE;
Barbara Schmohl, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Ünal Gazyakan, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Detlef Baasch, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Christoph Pelchen, Tettnang, DE;
Barbara Schmohl, Friedrichshafen, DE;
ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Abstract
A transfer case () with controllable clutch () for a motor vehicle, especially for a motor vehicle with part-time four-wheel drive, for distributing a driving torque coming in via a drive shaft () to at least two output shafts (). Hereby the output shaft () can be connected to the drive shaft () via the clutch (), and the clutch () can be actuated via an electric motor () and a drive converter device () that is arranged between the electric motor () and the clutch () for converting a rotatory motion of the electric motor () into a translatory actuating motion for the clutch (). The electric motor () is hereby designed as an induction motor.