Clutch device connected centrally on the input side to a rotating shaft or rotating component in a motor vehicle drive train

US6830140B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ZF Sachs AG · DE

Inventors

• Georg Zink · Gerolzhofen, DE
• Andreas Orlamünder · Schweinfurt, DE
• Olaf Pagels · Bergrheinfeld, DE
• Sebastian Vogt · Jena, DE
• Markus Heiartz · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 2002
• Grant date: Dec 14, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16D2021/0684
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle drive train with a clutch device installed between a drive unit and a transmission having at least one transmission input shaft to transmit torque between the drive unit and the transmission. The clutch device comprises at least one clutch arrangement assigned to a respective transmission input shaft, where an input side of the clutch device is connected directly or indirectly by way of a torque-transmitting arrangement to a connecting end of a power takeoff shaft of the drive unit. The torque-transmitting arrangement has a radially outer connecting area for connection to the clutch device and a radially inner connecting area for the direct or indirect connection to the connecting end by the mediation of at least one positive connecting element, which connects the radially inner connecting area in a positive manner to the connecting end or to a component or assembly attached nonrotatably to the connecting end, and which secures the radially inner connecting area on the connecting end or on the component or assembly in the axial direction. The positive connecting element is located in a central radial area relative to an axis of rotation (A) of the clutch device, whi…