Dual clutch transmission for a motor vehicle

• US 10,677,322 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2016
• Issued: 06/09/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Hummel, Steffen
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Ha Dinh
• Application Number:
  US15/551,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20180038451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,602 Days
• Field of Search: 74330, 74331, 74333, 74340
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0803 with countershafts coaxial with input or output shaft
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0818 comprising means for power-shifting
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0822 characterised by the arrangement of at least one reverse gear
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0826 wherein at least one gear on the input shaft, or on a countershaft is used for two different forward gear ratios
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/0078 the gear ratio comprising twelve or more forward speeds
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/006 power being selectively transmitted by either one of the parallel flow paths
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/089 all of the meshing gears being supported by a pair of parallel shafts, one being the input shaft and the other the output shaft, there being no countershaft involved

Abstract

A dual clutch transmission for a motor vehicle, with gear wheel sets, which can be engaged via shift elements and which, in particular, form eight wheel planes, which are associated with, respectively, a first sub-transmission and a second sub-transmission, each sub-transmission has a respective input shaft and both sub-transmissions have a common output shaft, wherein the mutually coaxial input shafts can each be activated in alternation via a power-shift clutch and the even forward gears are associated with the first sub-transmission and the odd forward gears are associated with the second sub-transmission.

Claims

1. A dual clutch transmission for a motor vehicle, comprising:

gear wheel sets, which can be engaged via shift elements and which form exactly eight wheel planes, arranged in succession in the axial direction from the input side to the output side of the dual clutch transmission, which are associated with, respectively, a first sub-transmission and a second sub-transmission, of which the first sub-transmission has a first input shaft and the second sub-transmission has a second input shaft, and the two sub-transmissions have a common output shaft, wherein mutually coaxial input shafts can each be activated via a powershift clutch in alternation, and the even forward speeds are associated with the first sub-transmission and the odd forward speeds are associated with the second sub-transmission, which can be engaged when a gear shift occurs via a shift element, wherein at least two wheel planes of the first sub-transmission both have drive-side gear wheels, which are detachably mounted rotatably on the input shaft thereof, and output-side gear wheels, which are detachably mounted rotatably on the output shaft, or decoupled therefrom and mesh with one or more former gear wheels, which can be coupled to the first input shaft and to the output shaft, or decoupled therefrom, by shift elements, wherein the two output-side gear wheels of the two wheel planes are arranged on an output-side hollow shaft, which is coaxially mounted rotatably on the output shaft, in a torsionally resistant manner, which can be coupled via exactly one first shift element to the output shaft, and wherein the two drive-side gear wheels of the two wheel planes can be coupled in alternation to the input shaft of the first sub-transmission via exactly one second shift element wherein the two wheel planes are arranged as the first and the second wheel planes in the first sub-transmission, and in that the first sub-transmission has the third wheel plane, which has a drive-side gear wheel, which is detachably mounted rotatably on the input shaft of the first sub-transmission, and an output-side gear wheel, which is detachably mounted rotatably on the output shaft and meshes with at least one of the former gear wheels, in that the output-side gear wheel of the third wheel plane can be coupled by the first shift element to the output shaft, and in that the first shift element is arranged as a shift element, which can be engaged on both sides in the axial direction, between the two output-side gear wheels of the second and third wheel planes, in that the drive-side gear wheel of the third wheel plane is arranged together with the drive-side gear wheel of the second wheel plane in a torsionally resistant manner on a drive-side hollow shaft, which is arranged on the first input shaft in a coaxial and rotatable manner, and in that the first sub-transmission has the fourth wheel plane, which has an output-side gear wheel, which is arranged on the output shaft in a torsionally resistant manner, and a drive-side gear wheel, which is detachably mounted rotatably on the drive-side hollow shaft, and meshes with the former gear wheel, and in that the drive-side gear wheel of the fourth wheel plane can be coupled to the drive-side hollow shaft of the first sub-transmission by a third shift element.

2. The dual clutch transmission according to claim 1, wherein the second shift element is a shift element that can be engaged on both sides in the axial direction, and in that the second shift element is borne in the axial direction between the two drive-side gear wheels of the two wheel planes by the input shaft of the first sub-transmission.

3. The dual clutch transmission according to claim 1, wherein the second sub-transmission has the fifth wheel plane, which has a drive-side gear wheel, which is detachably mounted rotatably on the second input shaft, and an output-side gear wheel, which is detachably mounted rotatably on the output shaft.

4. The dual clutch transmission according to claim 3, wherein the drive-side gear wheel of the fifth wheel plane can be coupled to the drive-side hollow shaft of the first sub-transmission by means of the third shift element, and in that the third shift element is a shift element that can be engaged on both sides in the axial direction and is borne in the axial direction between the fourth wheel plane and the fifth wheel plane by the hollow shaft.

5. The dual clutch transmission according to claim 3, wherein the output-side gear wheel of the fifth wheel plane can be coupled to the output shaft via a fourth shift element.

6. The dual clutch transmission according to claim 1, wherein the second sub-transmission has the seventh and eighth wheel planes, the two drive-side gear wheels of which are detachably mounted rotatably on the second input shaft and the two output-side gear wheels of which are detachably mounted rotatably on the output shaft, and in that the two output-side gear wheels of the seventh and eighth wheel planes are arranged in a torsionally resistant manner on a hollow shaft, which is mounted in a coaxial and rotatable manner on the output shaft and can be coupled to the output shaft via a fourth shift element.

7. The dual clutch transmission according to claim 6, wherein the two drive-side gear wheels of the seventh and eighth wheel planes can be coupled in alternation to the input shaft of the second sub-transmission via exactly one fifth shift element, and in that the fifth shift element is borne in the axial direction between the two drive-side gear wheels of the seventh and eighth wheel planes by the second input shaft, and is designed as a shift element that can be engaged on both sides.

8. The dual clutch transmission according to claim 6, wherein the second sub-transmission has the sixth wheel plane, which has an output-side gear wheel, which is arranged on the output shaft in a torsionally resistant manner, and a drive-side gear wheel, which is detachably mounted rotatably on a drive-side hollow shaft of the second sub-transmission and meshes with the former gear wheel.

9. The dual clutch transmission according to claim 3, wherein a sixth shift element is arranged between the fifth wheel plane and the sixth wheel plane and is a shift element acting in the axial direction on both sides, and in that, by means of the sixth shift element, either the drive-side gear wheel of the fifth wheel plane or the drive-side gear wheel of the sixth wheel plane can be coupled to the drive-side hollow shaft of the second sub-transmission.