Actuator device for a gearbox of a motor vehicle and corresponding gearbox for a motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10746292-B2
Application number	US-201414778853-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2014
Priority date	Mar 22, 2013
Publication date	Aug 18, 2020
Grant date	Aug 18, 2020

Abstract

An actuator device for a gearbox of a motor vehicle includes a plurality of selector shafts displaceable in a first direction between a plurality of selection positions and in a second direction between a plurality of shifting positions and which each have a connecting element that is operatively-connected in at least one of the selection positions with at least one selector rail of the gearbox for transferring a movement of the selector shaft in the second direction onto the selector rail. The selector shafts are mounted relative to each other to be movable relative to one another in the first direction and are fixed to relative to each other in the section direction The selection positions of the selector shafts are independently adjustable by of a plurality of first adjusting elements and wherein the selector shafts can be displaced together between the shifting positions by means of a second adjusting element.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An actuator device for a transmission of a motor vehicle, comprising:
a plurality of selector shafts displaceable into a first direction between multiple selection positions and in a second direction between multiple shifting positions, each said selector shafts having a connecting shaft, which in at least one of the selection positions is operatively connected with at least one selector rail of the transmission for transmitting a movement of the selector shaft in the second direction to the selector rail, wherein the selector shafts are mounted relative to each other so as to be movable relative to each other in the first direction and to be fixed relative to each other in the second direction;
a plurality of first setting devices, wherein the selection positions of the selector shafts are settable independent of each other by the first setting devices; and
a second setting device, wherein the selector shafts are displaceable together between the shifting positions by the second setting device, so that all selector shafts are always present in the same shifting position, and wherein the selector shafts are operatively connected with the second setting device via an intermediate shaft,
wherein the intermediate shaft is rotatable about a rotation axis but fixed in an axial direction, wherein shaft-hub-connections are provided between the intermediate shaft and the selector shafts, so that the selector shafts are displaceable in the axial direction relative to the intermediate shaft.

2. The actuator device of claim 1 , wherein each selector shaft is assigned one of the selector rails.

3. The actuator device of claim 1 , wherein each selector shaft is assigned at least two of the selector rails.

4. The actuator device of claim 1 , wherein the selector shafts are supported for rotation about a common rotation axis.

5. The actuator device of claim 1 , wherein each selector shaft has a respective restoring device which respectively urges each selector shaft into a neutral one of the selection positions.

6. The actuator device of claim 1 , wherein the first direction is the axial direction with regard to the rotation axis and/or the second direction is a circumferential direction with regard to the rotation axis, or wherein the first direction is the circumferential direction with regard to the rotation axis and/or the second direction is the axial direction with regard to the rotation axis.

7. The actuator device of claim 1 , wherein the first setting devices are constructed as magnetic setting devices.

8. The actuator device of claim 1 , wherein the second setting device is constructed as an electric motor, which is operatively connected to the selector shafts.

9. The actuator device of claim 1 , wherein the selector shafts are supported on the intermediate shaft in rotative fixed relationship with the intermediate shaft.

10. A transmission of a motor vehicle, comprising an actuator device, said actuator device comprising
a plurality of selector shafts displaceable into a first direction between multiple selection positions and in a second direction between multiple shifting positions, each said selector shafts having a connecting shaft, which in at least one of the selection positions is operatively connected with at least one selector rail of the transmission for transmitting a movement of the selector shaft in the second direction to the selector rail, wherein the selector shafts are mounted relative to each other so as to be movable relative to each other in the first direction and to be fixed relative to each other in the second direction;
a plurality of first setting devices, wherein the selection positions of the selector shafts are settable independent of each other by the first setting devices; and
a second setting device, wherein the selector shafts are displaceable together between the shifting positions by the second setting device, so that all selector shafts are always present in the same shifting position, and wherein the selector shafts are operatively connected with the second setting device via an intermediate shaft,
wherein the intermediate shaft is rotatable about a rotation axis but fixed in an axial direction, wherein shaft-hub-connections are provided between the intermediate shaft and the selector shafts, so that the selector shafts are displaceable in the axial direction relative to the intermediate shaft.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Hummel Steffen

Classifications

• F16H63/28

  two or more final actuating mechanisms moving the same final output mechanism · CPC title

• F16H2063/208

  using two or more selecting fingers · CPC title

• F16H63/206

  the final output mechanisms being mounted coaxially on a single shaft, e.g. mono rail shift mechanism · CPC title

• F16H63/3069

  Interrelationship between two or more final output mechanisms · CPC title

• F16H61/28 Primary

  with at least one movement of the final actuating mechanism being caused by a non-mechanical force, e.g. power-assisted · CPC title