Device for switching on a drive train

US5423235A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GKN Automotive Limited · DE

Inventors

• John R. Botterill · Riegelsberg, DE
• Robert Rickell · Siegburg, DE
• Eugen Stall · Neunkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 1991
• Grant date: Jun 13, 1995
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/19084
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for switching on a drive train in a motor vehicle has a power divider for several drive trains, one of which is permanently coupled with a drive unit and the other of which can be connected to the drive unit. The device also has an input shaft (2, 42, 82, 142) and an output shaft (4, 44, 84, 144) which can be connected to the input shaft (2, 42, 82, 142) through a switchable coupling (10, 50, 90, 150) in the form of an axially actuated friction clutch. The friction clutch is actuated by two rings (28, 30; 68, 70; 108, 110; 168, 170) which are coaxial with the clutch disks and which can be rotated relative to each other through 180.degree.. One ring is an axially supported support ring (28, 68, 108, 168) and the other ring is a pressure ring (30, 70, 110, 170) which slides axially on one of the shafts. The rings bear against each other on paths which can be varied axially around the periphery.