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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2014
Knorr-bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge Gmbh, Munich, DE;
Daniel Geis-Esser, Munich, DE;
Stephan Rebhan, Munich, DE;
KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A compressor system and a method for operating a compressor system is provided. The system includes an air compressor and a planetary gear train having an input shaft connected to a planetary carrier of the gear train and an output shaft connected the compressor and a sun gear of the gear train. A first switchable fixing device fixes one of means of which the planet carrier, the sun gear and a ring gear of the gear train with respect to an outer support, and a second switchable fixing device fixes relative to one another the two of components not fixed by the first switchable fixing device of the planetary gear train.