Patent Publication Number: US-8991276-B2

Title: Hydraulic system for actuating at least one shifting element of a transmission

Description:
This application claims priority from German patent application serial no. 10 2011 079 850.1 filed Jul. 26, 2011. 
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The invention relates to a hydraulic system for actuating at least one shifting element of a transmission. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     The document U.S. Pat. No. 7,282,005 B2 discloses a hydraulic system for actuating a shifting element of a transmission having a regulating valve device, which can be preset and has a regulating valve slide, and a shifting valve device, which is in effective connection thereto, and also can be preset, as well as being formed having a shifting valve slide. The pilot pressure for the regulating valve device and the shifting valve device is preset by a pressure regulating device depending on an electrical control signal, wherein the pressure regulating device has a defined working pressure range that is typically significantly lower than the actuating pressure of the shifting element. In order to be able to actuate the shifting element with higher pressure values compared to the pilot pressure of the regulating valve device and the shifting valve device, the regulating valve device is connected downstream of the pressure regulating device, in the region in which the pilot pressure of the pressure regulating device is converted to a higher level. 
     In general, during driving operation of a vehicle that is implemented having a transmission such as a torque-converter transmission or the like, it should be guaranteed that the shifting element in the completely engaged operating state is operated slip-free and has the full transfer capability thereof. For this purpose, the actuating pressure at the end of the regulating pressure range of the actuating pressure is increased step-like to a higher pressure value that corresponds to a so-called system pressure. The changeover, or the at least nearly step-like increase of the actuating pressure is implemented via the shifting valve device controlled in parallel by the pressure regulating device; the shifting valve device, however, is actuated, or transferred, out of a first shift state into a second shift state only at high pilot pressures. 
     The feedback from the actuating pressure to the regulating valve device is deactivated via the shifting valve device upon presence of a second shift state of the shifting valve device, so that the regulating valve device is transferred out of a so-called modulation position into an operating state, in which the system pressure present at the regulating valve device is completely passed through in the direction of the shifting element. 
     Because a regulating valve slide of the regulating valve device and a shifting valve slide of the shifting valve device are respectively disposed in separate valve borings, a hydraulic system formed in such a manner has an undesirably high construction space requirement. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     Therefore, the problem addressed by the present invention is to provide a hydraulic system that is efficient with respect to construction space, by means of which a shifting element of a transmission can be actuated. 
     The hydraulic system according to the invention for actuating at least one shifting element of a transmission is designed having a regulating valve device that can be preset and that has a regulating valve slide, and a shifting valve device operatively connected with it that can also be preset and is designed having a shifting valve slide. 
     According to the invention, the regulating valve slide and the shifting valve slide are disposed in a construction space-efficient manner in a common boring of a housing, coaxial to each other and movable in opposing longitudinal directions, and a pressure signal can be applied in the region of control surfaces, facing each other, via a common pressure chamber. 
     With this, the hydraulic system according to the invention is characterized by a more compact construction compared to solutions known from the prior art, whereby transmissions implemented with the hydraulic system can also be implemented with small dimensions and then have a low total weight. 
     In an advantageous embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention, the regulating valve slide and the shifting valve slide can each be held by means of a stop device in a defined starting position that they preferably occupy in a pressure-less operating state of the hydraulic system. This way, it is guaranteed that during the startup of a vehicle, the regulating valve slide and the shifting valve slide each have a slide position equivalent to a defined operating state of the regulating valve device and the shifting valve device, and the vehicle can be started with a defined operating state of the hydraulic system. 
     If a return spring force is applied to the regulating valve slide via a spring device acting in the direction of the defined starting position thereof, then the regulating valve slide can be transferred into the defined starting position thereof with a small amount of control and regulating effort. 
     In a further construction space-efficient embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention, a further pressure signal can be applied at the shifting valve slide acting in the direction of the defined starting position thereof; the shifting valve slide can be transferred into the defined starting position thereof by means of the further pressure signal without an additional spring device increasing the need for construction space. 
     If the further pressure signal can be applied in the region of an effective surface of an additional piston disposed in the boring, longitudinally movable and coaxial to the shifting valve slide, where the additional piston can be brought into effective connection to the shifting valve slide, then the shifting element can be actuated with higher control quality because the shifting valve slide can be implemented having a shorter axial length due to the arrangement of the additional piston, and an actuating hysteresis of the shifting valve device is low due to lower manufacturing tolerance-dependent frictional forces between the shifting valve slide and a housing of the shifting valve device. This is due to the fact that transverse forces acting on the shifting valve slide that result from coaxial geometry errors between the common boring and a piston collar of the shifting valve slide acting together with it, are nearly zero. 
     In a further advantageous embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention, in the region of the shifting valve device, the additional piston is disposed in a sealing sleeve provided in the boring, and the pressure signal can be applied thereto via a channel in the sealing sleeve. With this, a transmission ratio of the shifting valve slide of the shifting valve device can be set in a simple manner for dimensioning the actuating pressure of the shifting valve device depending on the application case, without costly constructive measures. For setting the actuating pressure of the shifting valve device depending on the respective application case, it only necessary to vary an inner diameter of the sleeve accommodating the additional piston in a longitudinally movable manner, and an outer diameter of the additional piston interacting with it, which defines the effective surface of the additional piston to which a pressure signal can be applied. Because the actuating pressure of the shift valve device is independent of the outer diameter of the sealing sleeve disposed in the common boring, the diameter of the common boring and the outer diameter of the sealing sleeve need not be changed for setting the actuating pressure of the shift valve device, whereby the manufacturing costs are reduced. 
     If an actuating pressure of the shifting element can be regulated via the regulating valve device within a defined pilot pressure range and with the presence of a first shift state of the shifting valve device, and if, above a pilot pressure value that can be applied to a first effective surface of a valve slide of the shifting valve device, the shift valve device has a second shift state, in which the actuating pressure of the shifting element corresponds to a system pressure that can be applied to the regulating valve device, then a shifting element that can be actuated via the hydraulic system according to the invention can be represented in a completely engaged operating state to the desired extent in a slip-free operating state. 
     In an embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention distinguished by low control and regulation costs, the actuating pressure of the shifting element can be applied at a first effective surface of the regulating valve slide of the regulating valve device in an effective direction that reduces the actuating pressure. 
     If the first effective surface of the regulating valve slide, to which the actuating pressure can be applied, is a differential area between two effective surfaces of the regulating valve slide that delimit a reduced diameter region of the regulating valve slide in the axial direction, via which the actuating pressure can be jointly set using shifting tongues, the construction space requirement of the regulating valve device is less than those of the designs known in practice, in which the first effective surface is provided in the region of a separate, or additional valve collar, which can only be implemented via a great axial length of the regulating valve side, because the axial length of the regulating valve slide is shorter. With this, the regulating valve device of the hydraulic system according to the invention has good control characteristics which are improved as compared with known solutions due to transverse forces acting to a lesser extent on a shorter implementation of the valve slide. The transverse forces result, among other reasons, from deformations of a housing of the regulating valve device and manufacturing tolerances which degrade the operating characteristics of the regulating valve slide in the valve housing of the regulating valve device. 
     The first effective surface of the regulating valve slide representing an integrated return surface results, however, in an inability to switch off the pressure applied to the first effective surface of the regulating valve slide without additional measures, as in known solutions, and the regulating valve slide of the regulating valve device must be transferred into an operating state through an additional measure, in which the actuating pressure of the shifting element takes on a value that guarantees a slip-free operating state of the shifting element. 
     In an embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention that can be produced in a constructively simple and economical manner, when the second shift state of the shifting valve device exists on the regulating slide valve, a total force component corresponding to at least the sum of a first force component equivalent to a pressure signal present at a second effective surface of the regulating valve slide and a second force component equivalent to the actuating pressure present at the first effective surface of the regulating valve slide, acts on the regulating valve slide, guiding the regulating valve slide in the direction of a position in which the actuating pressure is the same as the system pressure. 
     In an advantageous embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention, the actuating pressure of the shifting element in the second shift state of the shifting valve device is fed back to the second effective surface of the regulating valve slide as a pressure signal from the regulating valve device via the shifting valve device. With this, the actuating pressure of the shifting element can be increased, depending on the operating state, to the pressure level required for slip-free operation of the shifting element in a construction space-saving and economical manner without additional pressure regulators. 
     If the system pressure in the second shift state of the shifting valve device is applied as a pressure signal to the second effective surface of the regulating valve slide, the regulating valve device is reliably overridden and the regulating function of the regulating valve device is deactivated, whereby the actuating pressure of the shifting element above the pilot pressure value that can be applied to the first effective surface is no longer regulated, but rather corresponds to the system pressure and is reliably operated slip-free in the engaged operating state. 
     If in contrast, in the second shift state of the shifting valve device, the actuating pressure of the shifting element, or the pilot pressure of the regulating valve device, is applied as a pressure signal to the second effective surface of the regulating valve slide, the regulating valve device in the second shift state of the shifting valve device is reliably overridden and the regulating function of the regulating valve device is deactivated and the shifting element is pressurized with the actuating pressure required for the slip-free operation of the shifting element in the engaged operating state. 
     In an embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention that saves construction space and costs, the pilot pressure of the shifting valve device and the regulating valve device can be set via a common pressure regulating device. 
     If a pressure regulating valve slide of the pressure regulating device is disposed coaxially to the shifting valve slide and to the regulating valve slide in the common boring, the hydraulic system according to the invention is implemented in a particularly construction space-saving manner. 
     Features specified in the following example embodiments of the hydraulic system according to the invention are suitable for further developing the subject matter according to the invention either alone or in any arbitrary combination. The respective combinations of features with respect to the further development of the subject matter according to the invention do not represent limitations, but rather merely comprise examples. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       Further advantages and advantageous embodiments of the hydraulic system according to the invention arise from the example embodiments described in the following, based in principle on the drawings, where for the sake of clarity, in the description of the different example embodiments, components that are the same or functionally equivalent are provided with the same reference numbers. They show: 
         FIG. 1  a part of a first embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention; 
         FIG. 2  a representation corresponding to  FIG. 1 , of a second embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention; 
         FIG. 3  a representation corresponding to  FIG. 1  of a third embodiment of the hydraulic system according to the invention; 
         FIG. 4  a detailed representation of a regulating valve device and a shifting valve device of the hydraulic system according to  FIG. 1 , wherein a regulating valve slide of the regulating valve device and a shifting valve slide of the shifting valve device are disposed coaxially to each other, longitudinally movable in a common boring. 
         FIG. 5  a stop device for the regulating valve slide and for the shifting valve slide in a stand-alone representation from a view along section line  5 - 5  designated in  FIG. 4 ; and 
         FIG. 6  an example control circuit with a plurality of hydraulic systems according to  FIG. 3  for an electro-hydraulically controlled automatic transmission. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
       FIG. 1  shows a part of a first example embodiment of a hydraulic system  1  for actuating a shifting element  2  of the transmission device, wherein the present shifting element  2  is a friction clutch of the transmission device that can be hydraulically actuated. Depending on an actuating pressure p 2  that can be applied to the shifting element  2 , a transfer capability of the shifting element  2  can be varied between a value equal to zero and a maximum value. 
     The actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  can be adjusted via a regulating valve device  3  that can be preset, and a shifting valve device  4  that can also be preset and is in effective connection thereto. Here, the actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  can be regulated within a defined pilot pressure range via the regulating valve device  3 , and when in a first shift state of the shifting valve device  4 , represented in  FIG. 1 . Above a pilot pressure value present at a first effective surface  5  of a shifting valve slide  6  of the shifting valve device  4 , the shifting valve device  4  has a second shift state in which the actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  corresponds to a system pressure p_sys that can be applied to the regulating valve device  3 . 
     The actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  can be applied to first effective surface  7  of a regulating valve slide  8  of the regulating valve device  3  in an effective direction reducing the actuating pressure p 2 . The first effective surface  7  of the regulating valve slide  8 , to which the actuating pressure p 2  can be applied, is a differential area between two effective surfaces  10 ,  11  of the regulating valve slide  8  delimiting a reduced diameter range  9  of the regulating valve slide  8  in an axial direction, by means of which the actuating pressure p 2  can be set jointly with shifting tongues  12 ,  13 . 
     This means that the effective surface  7  corresponds to a differential surface, or a feedback surface, that results from the difference between a first collar  8 A of the regulating valve slide  8  and an effective surface of a second collar  8 B of the regulating valve slide  8 , wherein the first collar  8 A has a larger diameter than a second collar  8 B. 
     In the case of a second shift state of the shifting valve device  4 , a total force component corresponding to at least a sum of a first force component equivalent to a pressure signal p_VS present at a second effective surface  14  of the regulating valve slide  8 , and a second force component equivalent to the actuating pressure p 2  applied at the first effective surface  7  of the regulating valve slide  8  and a spring force of a spring device  15 , acting on the regulating valve slide  8 , act on the regulating valve slide  8 , guiding the regulating valve slide  8  in the direction of a slide setting in which the actuating pressure p 2  is the same as the system pressure p_sys, wherein the spring force of the spring device  15  here has no effect on the basic function of the regulating valve device  3 , but rather merely causes a shift of the working range of the regulating valve device  3 . 
     In addition to the shifting valve device  4  and the regulating valve device, the hydraulic system  1  has a pressure regulating device  16  in the range of which the pilot pressure p_VS is preset controlled depending on electrical control signals. 
     In the pressureless operating state of the hydraulic system  1 , the shifting valve slide  6  is pushed by a reducing pressure p_red present at an effective surface  17  of the shifting valve slide  6 , and the regulating valve slide  8  is pushed by a spring device  15  respectively into a defined starting position, wherein here a pressureless state of the hydraulic system  1  is understood fundamentally to be a pilot pressure value of essentially zero output by the pressure regulating device  16 . The reducing pressure p_red present at the pressure regulating device  16  represents the supply pressure of the pressure regulating device  16 . Depending on a supply of the pressure regulating device  16 , the pilot pressure p_VS has values between zero and the supply pressure, or the reducing pressure p_red, as a maximum value. The named pressureless operating state of the hydraulic system  1  avoids both a pre-fill pressure p_VB present at the regulating valve device  3  in the area of a further shifting tongue  18  as an actuating pressure p 2  is transmitted via the regulating valve device  3  in the direction of the shifting element  2 , and an emptying of the shifting element  2 , which in the presence of the pre-fill pressure p_VB is in the disengaged operating state. 
     If the pilot pressure p_VS is set via the pressure regulating device  16  within the predefined pilot pressure range, which lies below the pilot pressure value at which the shifting valve device  4  transitions from the first shifting position represented in  FIG. 1  into the second completely transitioned shift state, the pilot pressure p_VS is also applied to the second the surface  14  of the regulating valve slide  8 , and pushes the regulating valve slide counter to the spring force of the spring device  15 . With the increasing displacement of the regulating valve slide  8 , the shifting tongue  12  at which the system pressure p_sys is present, is increasingly connected to the shifting tongue  13 , via which an adjustable pressure that can be regulated in the range of the regulating valve device  3  can be applied to a shifting tongue  19  of the shifting valve device  4 . The set pressure that is present in the region of the shifting tongue  19  of the shifting valve device  4  and is regulated via the regulating valve device  3 , is in the first shift position of the shifting valve device  4  transmitted via a further shifting tongue  20  of the shifting valve device  4  in the direction of the shifting element  2 , as an actuating pressure p 2 . 
     With the opening of the shifting tongue  12  of the regulating valve device  3 , a pressure that is dependent on the system pressure p_sys and the setting of the regulating valve slide  8  is present at the differential surface  7  of the regulating valve slide  8 ; this pressure pushes the regulating valve slide  8  counter to the pilot pressure p_VS present at the second effective surface  14  to an extent that reduces the actuating pressure p 2  until there is a balance of forces at the regulating valve slide  8 . Via the respectively arising force equilibrium that is acting on the regulating valve slide  8 , the regulating valve device  3  regulates, within the preset pilot pressure range, the actuation pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  that is preset in each case via the pilot pressure p_VS, where with continuous increase of the pilot pressure p_VS the actuation pressure p 2  is increased proportionally. 
     In order to allow the slip-free operation of the shifting element  2  in the predefined operating states of the transmission device, the actuating pressure p 2  should be regulatable by the regulating valve device  3  only up to a defined pressure level of the pilot pressure p_VS. Furthermore, the actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  should correspond to the system pressure p_sys. 
     For this purpose, starting from the first shift position shown in  FIG. 1 , above the defined pilot pressure value of the pilot pressure p_VS, the shifting valve device  4  switches against the reducing pressure p_red present at the effective surface  17  of the shifting valve slide  6 . For this, the effective surface  5  of the shifting valve slide  6  is designed larger than the effective surface  17 . In the second shift position of shifting valve device  4 , the system pressure p_sys present in the region of the shifting valve device  4  at a further shifting tongue  21  of the shifting valve device  4  is transmitted via the shifting tongue  20  of the shifting valve device  4  directly in the direction of the shifting element  2 . At the same time, the shifting tongue  19  in the second shift position of the shifting valve device  4 , in the region of which the pressure regulated by the regulating valve device  3  prevails, is blocked by the shifting valve slide  6 . This means that the actuating pressure p 2  in the second shifting position of the shifting valve device  4 , in which the regulating valve device is not disposed in the hydraulic supply path of the shifting element  2 , corresponds to the system pressure p_sys, although the regulating function of the regulating valve device  3  is active as before. With this, the shifting element  2  in the latter operating state of the hydraulic system  1  has the full transmission capability thereof and can be operated slip-free. 
       FIG. 2  shows a representation corresponding to  FIG. 1 , of a second example embodiment of the hydraulic system  1 , the basic design of which corresponds to the first example embodiment of the hydraulic system according to  FIG. 1 , which is why in the following description substantially only the differences of the embodiments are described, and for the remaining function of the hydraulic system according to  FIG. 2 , reference is made to the description of  FIG. 1 . 
     With the hydraulic system  1  according to  FIG. 2 , the pilot pressure p_VS is not applied directly to the second effective surface  14  of the regulating valve slide  8 , but rather, in the first shift state of the shifting valve device  4  shown in  FIG. 2 , is further transmitted by the shifting tongue  19  and the further shifting tongue  20  that is connected thereto in the direction of the second effective surface  14  of the regulating valve slide  8 , and pushes the regulating valve slide  8  counter to the spring force of the spring device  15 , wherein with increasing displacement of the regulating valve slide  8 , the shifting tongue  12  of the regulating valve device  3 , at which the system pressure p_sys is applied, is increasingly connected to the shifting tongue  13  of the regulating valve device  3 , via which the adjustable actuating pressure p 2  that can be regulated in the range of the regulating valve device  3  is applied to the shifting element  2 . 
     With the opening of the shifting tongue  12  of the regulating valve device  3 , a pressure that depends on the system pressure p_sys and the setting of the regulating valve slide  8  is present at the differential surface  7  of the regulating valve slide  8 ; this pressure pushes the regulating valve slide  8  counter to the pilot pressure p_VS present at the second effective surface  14  to an extent reducing the actuating pressure p 2 , until there is a balance of forces at the regulating valve slide  8 . Via the respectively arising force equilibrium that is acting on the regulating valve slide  8 , the regulating valve device  3  regulates, within the preset pilot pressure range, the actuation pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  that is preset in each case via the pilot pressure p_VS, where with continuous increase of the pilot pressure p_VS the actuation pressure p 2  is increased proportionally. 
     The shifting element  2  is also to be operated slip-free in predefined operating states of the transmission device by means of the hydraulic system  1  according to  FIG. 2 . For this purpose, the actuating pressure p 2  should be regulated via the regulating valve device  3  only up to a defined pressure level of the pilot pressure p_VS. Furthermore, the actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  should correspond to the system pressure p_sys. 
     For this purpose, starting from the first shift position shown in  FIG. 2 , above the defined pilot pressure value of the pilot pressure p_VS, the shifting valve device  4  switches into the second completely opposite shift position thereof, in which the pilot pressure p_VS via the shifting valve device  4  is no longer applied as a pressure signal p 14  in the direction of the second effective surface  14  of the regulating valve slide  8 . In the second shift position of the shifting valve device  4 , the system pressure p_sys present at the shifting tongue  12  of the regulating valve device  3  is transmitted via the shifting tongue  21  of the shifting valve device  4  in the direction of the shifting valve  19  of the shifting valve device  4 , and via the further shifting tongue  20  of the shifting valve device  4 , in the second shift position of the shifting valve device  4  connected to the shifting tongue  19 , is passed through as a pressure signal p 14  in the direction of the second effective surface  14  of the regulating valve slide  8  of the regulating valve device  3 . The system pressure p_sys acts via the second effective surface  14  of the regulating valve slide  8  counter to the spring force of the spring device  15  and to the system pressure p_sys acting on the differential surface  7  with such a large excess force that the regulating valve slide  8  of the regulating valve device  3  loses the regulating function thereof, and the actuating pressure p 2  corresponds to the system pressure p_sys and is present at the shifting element  2 . With this, the shifting element  2  in the latter operating state of the hydraulic system  1 , according to point  2 , also has the full transmission capability thereof and can be operated slip-free. 
       FIG. 3  shows a representation corresponding to  FIG. 1 , of a third example embodiment of the hydraulic system  1 , the basic function of which, namely below the predefined pilot pressure value of the pilot pressure p_VS, to adjust the actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  in a controlled manner via the regulating valve device  3 , and above the predefined pilot pressure value, to apply the system pressure p_sys, in order to be able to operate the shifting element  2  in an essentially slip-free manner, corresponds to the function of the hydraulic system according to  FIG. 1  and  FIG. 2 . For this reason, the description for  FIG. 3  substantially describes only the differences to the hydraulic systems  1  according to  FIG. 1  and  FIG. 2 , and for the remaining function of the hydraulic system  1  according to  FIG. 3 , reference is made to the preceding description. 
     In the first shift position, of the shifting valve device  4 , shown in  FIG. 3 , the adjusted actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  that is regulated in the region of the regulating valve device  3 , is applied via the shifting tongue  19  and the shifting tongue  20  in the direction of a further shifting tongue  22  of the regulating valve device  3  at the first effective surface  7  of the regulating valve slide  8  in a manner reducing the actuating pressure p 2  and in the opposite direction of the pilot pressure p_VS, which is present at the second effective surface  14  of the regulating valve slide  8 , whereby the regulating function of the regulating valve device  3  is activated. The diameters of the collars  8 A and  8 B and the effective surfaces  10  and  11  of the regulating valve slide  8  are of the same size, and the effective surface  7  of the regulating valve slide  8  is provided on a side of the collar  8 B facing away from the reduced diameter region  9  of the regulating valve slide  8 . 
     Above the defined pilot pressure value of the pilot pressure p_VS, the shifting valve device  4  is switched out of the first shifting state thereof, shown in  FIG. 3 , into the second shifting state thereof, in which the shifting tongue  19  of the shifting valve device  4  is separated from the shifting valve slide  6  by the further shifting tongue  20  of the shifting valve device  4 . This leads to the fact that the actuating pressure p 2  of the shift element  2 , via the further shifting tongue  20 , is no longer present at the further shifting tongue  22  of the regulating valve device  3 , and the pilot pressure p_VS shifts the regulating valve slide  8  completely to the opposite position, against the spring force of the spring device  15 . In this completely shifted operating state of the regulating valve device  3 , the system pressure p_sys present at the shifting tongue  12  is transmitted with the full amount as an actuating pressure p 2  in the direction of the shifting element  2 , and the shifting element  2  operates in a slip-free manner. At the same time, the pressure applied at the shifting tongue  22  in the second shift position of the shifting valve device  4  is bled via the shifting tongue  20  and a further shifting tongue  23  connected thereto in the second shift position of the shifting valve device  4 , whereby the deactivation of the regulating function of the regulating valve device  3  is not prevented to an undesirable extent. 
     The spring device  15  of the regulating valve device  3 , here in all example embodiments represented in the drawings, is designed as an inner-lying helical spring, saving construction space. In order to further represent the hydraulic systems  1  according to  FIG. 1  to  FIG. 3  with the most compact construction possible, the regulating valve slide  8  and the shifting valve slide  6 , in a manner shown in more detail in  FIG. 4  that shows a design of the hydraulic system  1  according to  FIG. 1 , are disposed in a common boring  24  of the housing  25  of the hydraulic system  1  coaxial to each other and movable in opposing longitudinal directions, and the region of the effective surfaces  5  and  14 , or control surfaces, facing toward each other, can be pressurized in the previously described manner via a common pressure chamber  26  with the pilot pressure p_VS representing a pressure signal. A further reduction of the required construction space is achieved in that a pressure regulating valve slide  27  of the pressure regulating device  16  is also disposed coaxial to the shifting valve slide  6  and to the regulating valve slide  8  in the common boring  24 . 
     A stop device  28  is provided as a travel limit in the region of the common pressure chamber  26  between the regulating valve slide  8  and the shifting valve slide  6 . By means of the stop device  28 , shown in  FIG. 5  in a view along section line  5 - 5  in  FIG. 4 , it is guaranteed that the regulating valve slide  8  and the shifting valve slide  6  can not be moved beyond the provided displacement path, and thus cannot interact with each other. Furthermore, the stop device  28  guarantees that in the presence of a pilot pressure p_VS equal to zero, the regulating valve slide  8  and the shifting valve slide  6  take on a defined starting position. 
     The stop device  28  here comprises a stop plate  29 , which extends in the cross section of the common pressure chamber  26 , and is shown in  FIG. 4  both in a preassembled position as well as in a final assembled position. In the preassembled position, the stop plate  29  strikes with a spring arm  30  on a pocket edge  31 . For the transfer of the stop plate  29  into the final assembly position thereof, a radial force is applied onto the stop plate  29 , and is inserted into the common pressure chamber  26 , wherein the stop plate  29  in the final assembly position strikes on a pocket surface  32  outside of the sectional plane of the common pressure chamber  26 . 
     The hydraulic system  1  according to  FIG. 1  is also implemented in a construction space-saving manner because the shifting valve device  4 , in the manner shown more closely in  FIG. 4 , has an additional piston  33  interacting with the shifting valve slide  4 ; in the region of the additional piston the effective surface  17  to which the reducing pressure p_red can be applied, is smaller than the effective surface  5  of the shifting valve slide  6 . In the region of the shifting valve device  4 , by means of the additional piston  33 , a transmission ratio of greater than one can be realized between the control surfaces  5  and  17 , and by means of the additional piston  33 , transverse forces that result from coaxial geometry errors, acting on the shifting valve slide  6 , can be nearly eliminated, because pinching due to a radial offset between the axes of symmetry of the shifting valve slide  6  and the additional piston is avoided. 
     The additional piston  33  is guided in a sealing sleeve  34  coaxial to the shifting valve slide  6  and movable longitudinally. The reducing pressure p_red is present at a face surface  36  of the sealing sleeve  34 , and via a channel  37  in the sealing sleeve  34  is applied in the interior of the sealing sleeve  34 , and thus applied to the effective surface  17  of the additional piston  33 . By means of the adjustable transmission ratio between the effective surface  5  and the effective surface  17 , the actuating pressure of the shifting valve device  4  can in a simple manner be designed and adapted to the respective application case. 
     In all of the example embodiments of the hydraulic system  1  according to the invention shown in the figures, a supply line  38  feeding the actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  is downstream of the regulating valve device  3  and also downstream of the shifting valve device  4  designed having a diaphragm device  39 , whereby a temperature-dependent control quality of the actuating pressure p 2  of the shifting element  2  is improved, particularly during rapid actuations of the shifting element  2 , in a construction space-saving and economical, simple manner in comparison to the solutions known from the prior art. 
     The use of the hydraulic system according to the invention is limited neither to use in a specific electro-hydraulically controlled transmission or transmission type, nor to use for a specific constructive shifting element embodiment. 
     As an example of a possible practical application,  FIG. 6  shows a control circuit for an electro-hydraulically controlled automatic transmission with five shifting elements, in which a plurality of valve arrangements according to the invention are provided. The five shifting elements, which can be hydraulically actuated independent of each other, are labeled A to D. For each of the three shifting elements C, D and E, there is a separate hydraulic system according to  FIG. 3 . The control valve device  3 C, the shifting valve device  4 C and the pressure control device  16 C are assigned to the shifting element C, wherein the pilot pressure of this pressure control device  16 C is labeled p_VSC and the actuating pressure acting on the shifting element C is labeled p 2 C. The control valve device  3 D, the shifting valve device  4 D and the pressure control device  16 D are assigned to the shifting element D, wherein the pilot pressure of this pressure control device  16 D is labeled p_VSD and the actuating pressure acting on the shifting element D is labeled p 2 D. The control valve device  3 E, the shifting valve device  4 E and the pressure control device  16 E are assigned to the shifting element E, wherein the pilot pressure of this pressure control device  16 E is labeled p_VSE and the actuating pressure acting on the shifting element E is labeled p 2 E. Valve systems that are derived from the hydraulic system according to  FIG. 3  are also provided for the hydraulic control of the two shifting elements A and B. 
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           1  hydraulic system 
           2  shifting element 
           3 ,  3 C,  3 D,  3 E regulating valve device 
           4 ,  4 C,  4 D,  4 E shifting valve device 
           5  first effective surface of the shifting valve slide of the shifting valve device 
           6  shifting valve slide 
           7  first effective surface of the regulating valve slide of the 
         regulating valve device 
           8  regulating valve slide of the regulating valve device 
           8 A,  8 B collar of the regulating valve slide of the regulating valve device 
           9  reduced diameter region 
           10 ,  11  effective surface 
           12 ,  13  shifting tongue 
           14  second effective surface of the regulating valve slide of the regulating valve device 
           15  spring device 
           16 ,  16 C,  16 D,  16 E pressure regulating device 
           17  effective surface of the shifting valve slide 
           18  further shifting tongues of the regulating valve device 
           19  shifting tongue of the shifting valve device 
           20  further shifting tongue of the shifting valve device 
           21  further shifting tongue of the shifting valve device 
           22  shifting tongue of the regulating valve device 
           23  shifting tongue of the shifting valve device 
           24  common boring 
           25  housing 
           26  common pressure chamber 
           27  pressure regulator, valve slide 
           28  stop device 
           29  stop plate 
           30  spring arm 
           31  pocket edge 
           32  pocket surface 
           33  additional piston 
           34  sealing sleeve 
           35  boring of the sealing sleeve 
           36  face surface of the sealing sleeve 
           37  channel of the sealing sleeve 
           38  supply line of the shifting element 
           39  diaphragm device 
         p 2 , p 2 C, p 2 D, p 2 E actuating pressure 
         p 14  pressure signal 
         p_red reducing pressure 
         p_sys system pressure 
         p_VB prefill pressure 
         p_VS, p_VSC, p_VSD, pVSE pilot pressure 
         A, B, C, D, E shifting elements of an automatic transmission