Drive train assembly for a motor vehicle, and method for controlling the operation thereof

US6432023B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Ahner · Eppelheim, DE
• Wolfgang Haas · Schömberg, DE
• Torsten Mangold · Backnang, DE
• Manfred Ackermann · Elmhurst, US
• Andreas Frank · Sindelfingen, DE
• Juergen Glauning · Steinheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 13, 2002
• Expiry date: Mar 1, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S903/946
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a drive train assembly for a motor vehicle, which includes successively arranged an internal combustion engine, a starter clutch, an electrical machine a drive clutch, and an automatic transmission, preferably an automated manual transmission, a common double clutch positioner is assigned to the two clutches, which enables a selective setting of the applicable status (open or closed) of the clutches by assumption of a corresponding switching position.