Process for adjusting a friction clutch system

US6695115B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ZF Sachs AG · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Lindner · Schweinfurt, DE
• Frank Hirschmann · Niederwerrn, DE
• Reinhold Weidinger · Unterspiesheim, DE
• Klaus Steinel · Bergrheinfeld, DE
• Erwin Ziegler · Greßthal, DE
• Wolfram Hick · Schwanfeld, DE
• Norbert Lohaus · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2002
• Grant date: Feb 24, 2004
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16D13/757
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for adjusting a friction clutch system of the type including a housing arrangement; a pressure plate; a stored-energy device supported against the housing and the pressure plate; a wear-compensating device installed in the path of support between the stored-energy device and one of the housing arrangement and the pressure plate, this device having a detection element on the pressure plate, which in association with a stop element fixed with respect to the housing arrangement, detects the amount of wear which has occurred in the friction clutch; a clutch-release mechanism for exerting force on the stored-energy device in the direction opposite its relaxation direction in order to carry out release operations; and a transmission shaft braking arrangement which is activated when a brake-release position is reached during a clutch-release operation. The process includes the following steps:(a) using the clutch-release arrangement to adjust the stored-energy device to a basic pretension position from which the clutch-release arrangement moves through a brake-release stroke to reach a brake-release position; and(b) while the stored-energy device is held in the basic pretension …