A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing includes a single external power access for the shift actuator. A controller interprets a shaft displacement angle, determines if the transmission is in an imminent zero or zero torque region, and performs a transmission operation in response to the transmission in the imminent zero or zero torque region.

A drive system for a motor vehicle includes a separating clutch, a shiftable transmission, a drive machine, and a transmission gear wheel and a clutch device. In a first operating state either the clutch device or the transmission gear wheel is kinematically coupled to the transmission input shaft and in a second operating state both said clutch device and said transmission gear wheel are kinematically coupled in said manner thereto. The drive system comprises a braking device for transmitting a braking force in a non-contact manner in this first operating state from a first part to a second part of the braking device. In that the first part of the braking device is kinematically coupleable to the transmission input shaft and the second part is kinematically coupleable to the transmission gear wheel.

A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing includes a single external power access for the shift actuator. A controller interprets a shaft displacement angle, determines if the transmission is in an imminent zero or zero torque region, and performs a transmission operation in response to the transmission in the imminent zero or zero torque region.

A transmission includes an input shaft and an output shaft, the input shaft selectively accepting a torque input from a prime mover, and the output shaft selectively providing torque output to a driveline. A controller determines a shaft displacement angle representing an angle value of rotational displacement difference between at least two shafts of the transmission, and performs a transmission operation responsive to the shaft displacement angle.

A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing includes a single external power access for the shift actuator. A controller interprets a shaft displacement angle, determines if the transmission is in an imminent zero or zero torque region, and performs a transmission operation in response to the transmission in the imminent zero or zero torque region.

An automatic transmission (3) of a vehicle having a central synchronization device (8) with at least one shift element (33; 9, 10) assigned to a transmission input shaft (32; 6, 7) and being a friction locking brake, an actuating device (14) driven by supplying energy, and at least one transmission region (34; 12, 13) disposed between the brake and a transmission output shaft (30), an operative connection between the transmission input shaft and the transmission output shaft and different transmission ratios are producible over the at least one transmission region. The brake is transferable with the operative connection and the actuating device (14) into an operating state in which a transmission input shaft (6) interacting with the brake (33; 9, 10), is held in a rotationally fixed manner by the brake (33; 9, 10), wherein the brake (33; 9, 10) is held by the actuating (14) without any energy infeed.

A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing includes a single external power access for the shift actuator. A controller interprets a shaft displacement angle, determines if the transmission is in an imminent zero or zero torque region, and performs a transmission operation in response to the transmission in the imminent zero or zero torque region.

A method and a system of learning a pressure applied to a brake of a countershaft may include determining, when a shift condition is satisfied, whether a shifting to be performed is a power off upshift; releasing a clutch mounted between a power source and the transmission when the shifting to be performed is the power off upshift; detecting a contact duration until a speed of an input shaft of the transmission is lowered by a predetermined speed by applying a target pressure stored in a memory to the brake of the countershaft when the release of the clutch is completed; comparing the contact duration with a predetermined duration; correcting, when the contact duration is greater than the predetermined duration, the target pressure according to a difference between the contact duration and the predetermined duration; and storing and updating the corrected target pressure in the memory to apply a subsequent power on upshift.

A hybrid power system comprises an engine, a hybrid power module, and a dual input shaft speed change mechanism. The hybrid power module comprises a motor, a planetary gear system, and a first clutch. The planetary gear system is provided with at least three rotating shafts, which respectively are: a rotating shaft X1, a rotating shaft X2, and a rotating shaft X3. The first clutch is arranged between any two of the three rotating shafts. A power output shaft of the engine is connected to the rotating shaft X3 or the rotating shaft X1 and to a second input shaft of the dual input shaft speed change mechanism. A rotor of the motor is connected to the rotating shaft X1 or to the rotating shaft X3. The rotating shaft X2 is connected to a first input shaft of the dual input shaft speed change mechanism.

A method for operating a vehicle drive train (1) includes, during a downshift, disengaging at least one shift element (A through F) from a power flow of the transmission (5), guiding a power transmission capacity of a torque converter lockup clutch (4) to a level at which the torque converter lockup clutch (4) is in a non-slip operating condition during a positive engine override when a rotational speed of a prime mover (2) is guided towards a synchronous speed of a demanded desired ratio, and guiding the power transmission capacity of the torque converter lockup clutch (4)no later than a point in time of the downshift at which the rotational speed of the prime mover (2) is equal to the synchronous speed of the desired ratioto a level at which the torque converter lockup clutch (4) is transferred into a continuous slip operation due to torque.