CN1616853A - Dual Clutch Automatic Transmission - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention belongs to the field of mechanical automatic speed variator for vehicle, and is especially one kind of double clutch type automatic gear box in new structure. The automatic gear box includes various setting gear pairs, synchronous shifting unit and shifting control system, and features that each of the power input shaft and the power output shaft is provided with one wet clutch, all the setting gear pairs are divided into odd number set and even number set connected separately to the driven sheet of one of the clutches, and two clutches transmit the work power alternately to realize setting switching. The shift process has no power interruption, short shifting time, greatly raised shifting comfort and excellent shifting power performance and quality of vehicle. The present invention has simple and compact parallel shaft structure, low cost but the same effect as automatic rotary shaft gear box in complicated structure.
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Technical field
The invention belongs to the double-clutch automatic transmission of the automatic transmission in the vehicle, particularly a kind of new structure.
Technical background
Fast development along with automotive engineering, the automatic gear for vehicle that various ways occurred, mainly contain: hydraulic mechanical type automatic transmission (AT), mechanical continuously-variable transmission (CVT), and exerting both at home and abroad the electric control mechanical type automatic speed variator (AMT) studied in recent years.The particularly development of electric control mechanical type automatic speed variator because it has the advantage of the existing manual transmission production investment of the desired high fuel economy of present automobile industry development, low emission and protection, just has been subjected to the attention of each big automobile factory.
The generation of electric control mechanical type automatic speed variator is based on the development of traditional parallel-axis type manual transmission and comes.Among developmental research process to electric control mechanical type automatic speed variator, also discovery gradually its some shortcomings, power interruption when the problem of its maximum is exactly gear shift, this power character to vehicle, travelling comfort and fuel economy and discharging have brought certain influence.AMT plucks neutral gear with speed changer then because its structural principle has determined it at first to want cut-off clutch in gearshift procedure, gear selecting, gear shift again, last engaging clutch.Like this, after clutch separation, before clutch engages again again, the power of motor can not be passed to wheel and go the powered vehicle operation, so produced the interruption of transmission of power in the gearshift procedure, vehicle certainly leads to retardation, and shift time is long, brings adverse effect for the acceleration, travelling comfort etc. of vehicle.
Double-clutch automatic transmission (DCT) is emerging in recent years a kind of automatic transmission form, it can solve the power interruption problem that present automobile electric control mechanical type automatic speed variator produces effectively in gearshift procedure, present double-clutch automatic transmission structure as shown in Figure 4, though it has solved the power interruption problem in the gearshift procedure, but its complex structure, be difficult to manufacturing, particularly double clutch device, manufacture cost is very high.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to propose the double-clutch automatic transmission that a kind of structure is simple and direct, manufacture cost is lower, safe and reliable, to overcome the shortcoming that present various automatic transmission exists.
Double-clutch automatic transmission of the present invention, comprise each shifting gear pair, gear shift synchronizer and shift control, it is characterized in that respectively being provided with on its power input shaft and the output shaft wet clutch, each shifting gear is secondary to be divided by strange, even number gear, be connected with the driven plate of a clutch among these two wet clutches respectively, two clutches alternately transmit operation power to realize gear switch.
Working principle of the present invention is: when vehicle moves with a certain gear that links to each other with a clutch, control system is prejudged next gear that links to each other with another clutch that is about to the work of entering, because of this gear transferring power not also, so can instruct the self-clanging gear-shift gear of substituting in advance very easily, when vehicle operating reaches shift point, with the clutch separation of working,, automobile is travelled with next gear simultaneously with another clutch.In gearshift procedure, the power of motor constantly is passed to wheel all the time, so the gearshift procedure of finishing like this is the uninterrupted gear shift of power.
Good effect of the present invention is:
1. because double-clutch automatic transmission is to handle according to the principle of power shfit, it has the advantage of the two concurrently between AT automatic transmission and two kinds of automatic gearboxes of AMT.There is not power interruption in double-clutch automatic gearbox in gear shift work, do not produce so significantly slow down during gear shift.And it has shortened shift time, has improved the gear shift travelling comfort greatly, has guaranteed that vehicle has good power character and property of automatic shft.The inside transmission of double-clutch automatic transmission is the pure mechanical transmission of gear type, and the transmission efficiency during its operation is equal to electric control mechanical type automatic speed variator (AMT).Carry out work though this double-clutch automatic transmission also needs extra power to control it, internal structure that it is specific and decision-making capability have than the better fuel economy of traditional speed changer this speed changer.And because the improvement of control mode, the shortening of shift time also makes moderate progress to aspects such as vehicle oil consumption and dischargings.
2. because double-clutch automatic transmission is to carry out automation on former traditional manual transmission basis, thereby reached the effect of baroque running shaft (planetary pinion) formula automatic transmission with parallel-axis type structure simple in structure, but structure is compact more, and cost is lower.Its cost is well below automatic transmission such as AT, CVT.
3. double clutch of the present invention is made up of two independent single clutch, and its structure does not need otherwise designed, and single wet clutch is matured product, good reliability, and cost is low.
4. the double-clutch automatic transmission of structure of the present invention is simple in structure, is easy to processing.
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Fig. 1 is a double-clutch automatic transmission structural drawing of the present invention;
Working state schematic representation when Fig. 2 begins with one grade of operation for double-clutch automatic transmission of the present invention;
Working state schematic representation when Fig. 3 moves with second gear for double-clutch automatic transmission of the present invention changes;
Fig. 4 figure is present double-clutch automatic transmission structural representation.
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The embodiment who provides below in conjunction with accompanying drawing is further elaborated technical solution of the present invention.
Among Fig. 1 to 3: 1 is input shaft, 2 is the fourth gear driving gear, 3 be two, the fourth gear synchronizer, 4 is the second gear driving gear, 5 is one, three, reverse clutch, 6 is third speed drive gear, 7 is one grade of driving gear, and 8 is reverse driving gear, and 19 is the reverse gear mesomerism gear, 9 is output shaft, 10 be reverse gear in conjunction with gear ring, 11 is the reverse gear combined cover, 12 is the reverse gear driven gear, 13 is first speed driven gear, 14 be one, the third gear synchronizer, 15 is the third gear driven gear, 16 is the second gear driven gear, 17 is the fourth gear driven gear, 18 is two, the fourth gear clutch.
With reference to Fig. 1, has five speed change gears double-clutch automatic transmission of (comprising the back reverse gear), mainly by forming: two independent wet clutches, five speed change gear gear pairs and corresponding gear shift synchronizer, control system and gearshift mechanism (not drawing among the figure) thereof with the bottom.One, three, reverse clutch 5 is arranged on the input shaft 1 its concrete structure is:, the driven plate of clutch 5 and third speed drive gear 6, one grade of driving gear 7 are connected with reverse driving gear 8.Two, fourth gear clutch 18 is arranged on the output shaft 9, and the driven plate of clutch 18 is connected with second gear driven gear 16, fourth gear driven gear 17.Second gear driving gear 4 and fourth gear driving gear 2 between them are two, fourth gear synchronizer 3 on input shaft 1.And first speed driven gear 13 and third gear driven gear 15 are positioned on the output shaft 9, between them are one, third gear synchronizer 14.Reverse gear driven gear 12 also is positioned on the output shaft 9, engages in conjunction with gear ring 10 with reverse gear on being fixed on output shaft 9 or separates by reverse gear combined cover 11.Reverse gear mesomerism gear 19 and reverse driving gear 8 and 12 engagements of reverse gear driven gear, transferring power.
With reference to Fig. 2, when vehicle was in vehicle stop state, two clutches were all often opened, and promptly all were in separated state, not transferring power at two clutches at ordinary times.When vehicle is started to walk with one grade, two, fourth gear clutch 18 is a separated state, self-clanging gear-shift with one, third gear synchronizer 14 is engaged to first speed driven gear 13, gear switch is the I shelves, then one, three, reverse clutch 5 engages, vehicle begins with one grade of operation, and this moment, power transmission line was: input shaft 1 →, three, 5 → one grades of driving gear 7 → first speed driven gears 13 → of reverse clutch, third gear synchronizer 14 → output shaft 9.
Vehicle is when one grade of operation, because this moment two, fourth gear clutch 18 is in separated state, transferring power not, when vehicle quickens, when reaching the shift point near second gear, self-clanging gear-shift can change to second gear in advance with gear, be about to two, fourth gear synchronizer 3 is engaged to second gear driving gear 4, then one, three, reverse clutch 5 begins to separate, the while two, fourth gear clutch 18 begins to engage, and two clutches alternately switch, up to one, three, reverse clutch 5 separates fully, two, fourth gear clutch 18 engages fully, and whole gearshift procedure finishes, and vehicle changes to second gear.
With reference to Fig. 3, the power transmission line of second gear is: input shaft 1 → two, fourth gear synchronizer 3 → second gear driving gear 4 → second gear driven gear 16 → two, fourth gear clutch 18 → output shaft 9.
After vehicle enters the second gear operation, the vehicular automatic transmission ECU (Electrical Control Unit) can be known the current running state of vehicle according to relevant sensor signals, and then judge that vehicle is about to enter the gear of operation, if vehicle quickens, then next gear is a third gear, if vehicle deceleration, then next gear is one grade.And one grade and third gear all are connected in one, three, on the reverse clutch 5, because this clutch is in separated state, transferring power not, be about to the gear of the work of entering so can instruct self-clanging gear-shift to substitute in advance very easily, when vehicle operating reaches shift point, only need to work two, fourth gear clutch 18 separates, simultaneously one, three, reverse clutch 5 engages, the work good switching sequence of two clutches, whole gear shift action is all finished.The handoff procedure of other gear that advances also is like this.
During reverse gear, two, fourth gear clutch 18 separates, one, three, reverse clutch 2 engages, one, third gear synchronizer 14 mediates, reverse gear combined cover 11 combines gear ring 10 combinations with reverse gear driven gear 12 with reverse gear, drive driven shaft 9 and export reverse gears.
The structural principle of below only just have one, two, three, four, the embodiment of totally five gear speed changers for example understanding technical solution of the present invention; can realize more speed change gear or modification set-up mode fully by this design; but so long as form double clutch construction with two independent wet clutches; connect each Transmission gear respectively step by step; realize the alternate type gear switch, all belong to the claim protection domain of the technology of the present invention design.
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1. double-clutch automatic transmission, comprise each shifting gear pair, gear shift synchronizer and shift control, it is characterized in that respectively being provided with on its power input shaft and the output shaft wet clutch, each shifting gear is secondary to be divided by strange, even number gear, be connected with the driven plate of a clutch among these two wet clutches respectively, two clutches alternately transmit operation power to realize gear switch.
2. double-clutch automatic transmission according to claim 1, it is characterized in that the described driven plate that is arranged on the wet clutch (5) on the input shaft (1) is connected with third speed drive gear (6), one grade of driving gear (7) and reverse driving gear (8), the driven plate that is arranged on the wet clutch (18) on the output shaft (9) is connected with second gear driven gear 16, fourth gear driven gear 17.
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