Patent ID: 6093132
Filing Date: 2000-07-25
Classification: F16D,Y10T

Abstract:
An automatic clutch in a drive train of a motor vehicle having a transmission arranged between the engine and the drive wheels, the transmission being manually shiftable arbitrarily between different gears or drive positions with different transmission ratios, the clutch comprising:a motorized adjusting unit which actuates the clutch;a system of sensors which serves for controlling said adjusting unit, said sensor system sensing a parameter correlated with the speed of a gear change or change of drive position, signals of which initiate or control at least a releasing and engaging of the clutch when the gears or transmission stages are changed;wherein the adjusting unit controls an engaging operation of the clutch while a gear change or change of drive position is taking place as a function of the parameter correlated with the speed of the gear change or change of drive position such that a slipping phase, provided during clutch engagement, is increasingly shortened with increasing shifting speed.