Method for operating a drive train

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8825337
APP PUB NO 20130060411A1
SERIAL NO

13695843

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A method of operating a drive-train having a drive aggregate comprising an electric machine and internal combustion engine. An automated variable-speed transmission is connected between the engine and a drive output. The electric machine couples, via a friction clutch, a shaft of the transmission. Gearshifts are carried out in the transmission with an interruption of the drive torque provided by the drive aggregate in such manner that first the drive torque, provided at the output, is reduced to zero, then the actual gearshift is carried out, and then the drive torque, at the output, is again built up. To accomplish the gearshift, after disengaging a current gear and before engaging a target gear, the shaft of the transmission, which couples the electric machine via the friction clutch, is synchronized utilizing the inertial mass of the electric machine.

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ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGGERMANY FREDERIKSHAVN FRIEDRICHSHAFEN BADEN-WURTTEMBERG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kaltenbach, Johannes Friedrichshafen, DE 230 1425

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