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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2012
Mario Jung, Eichenweg, DE;
Bjoern Stehle, Buehlertal, DE;
Mario Jung, Eichenweg, DE;
Bjoern Stehle, Buehlertal, DE;
Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Abstract
A method for monitoring the operation of a drive train of a motor vehicle, the drive train including a drive machine, a clutch and an automated transmission, and the drive train having an emergency program, which enables an emergency operation of the drive train even if important control signals such as engine torque, engine speed, transmission speed are missing, where the emergency operation is initiated as soon as one of the following signals is no longer present: engine torque or a substitute value for the engine torque, torque requested by a driver or a substitute for the torque requested by the driver, engine speed, transmission input speed.