Hydrodynamic retarder system and method of controlling a hydrodynamic retarder system

    公开(公告)号:US11312341B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-26

    申请号:US16608425

    申请日:2018-04-25

    Abstract: A controllable hydrodynamic retarder system for a transmission including an electronic controller unit (ECU) for selecting and controlling brake torque by adjusting a retarder outlet pressure is described. The system can include an algorithm to calculate a retarder outlet pressure set point or tables or brake torque curves or profiles to allow the ECU to calculate or look up the functional relationships between the retarder RT outlet pressure, a vehicle or rotor speed, and a brake torque curve selected by the operator to provide the selected RT outlet pressure. The systems disclosed can also include a cooling system or utilize a vehicles engine cooling system. In one embodiment, the cooler can be shared between a transmission and the controllable retarder and can be adjusted to accommodate cooling requirements. The ECU can also make adjustments to the RT outlet pressure to address short term and long term RT overheating protection independent of the cooling system.

    Method for controlling a separating clutch

    公开(公告)号:US11084474B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-10

    申请号:US16563121

    申请日:2019-09-06

    Abstract: A method for controlling a separating clutch in a power train of a vehicle having a drive motor and a retarder. The clutch is arranged such that a rotor of the retarder is switched into a drive connection with the motor and/or power train via the clutch and a working chamber of the retarder can be filled with an operating medium to build up a braking power such that braking torque is exerted by the retarder onto the power train and/or motor. A control system switches the clutch into a closed or an open position. The switching of the clutch into the closed position occurs depending on an input signal to the controller, and the clutch is switched back into the open position depending on essentially no medium being present in the working chamber of the retarder and that predetermined limits of an operating and/or environmental parameter are not exceeded.

    VISCOUS ROTATIONAL SPEED CONTROL DEVICE WITH FLUID CIRCUIT
    56.
    发明申请
    VISCOUS ROTATIONAL SPEED CONTROL DEVICE WITH FLUID CIRCUIT 审中-公开
    带有流体电路的VISCOUS旋转速度控制装置

    公开(公告)号:US20160356327A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-08

    申请号:US15239123

    申请日:2016-08-17

    Inventor: Lee A. Perkins

    Abstract: A rotational speed control device includes a housing containing a viscous fluid and a shaft disposed in the housing and rotatable relative to the housing. A rotor may be movable axially on the shaft depending on the rotating speed of the shaft. The rotor is biased in a low torque direction. A braking torque between the rotor and the housing and/or between the rotor and a drive control ring is varied according to an axial position of the rotor on the shaft. The device may incorporate bypass channels to control a circulating pressure of the viscous fluid.

    Abstract translation: 转速控制装置包括容纳粘性流体的壳体和设置在壳体中并相对于壳体可旋转的轴。 转子可以在轴上轴向移动,这取决于轴的转速。 转子在低扭矩方向上偏置。 转子和壳体之间和/或转子和驱动控制环之间的制动转矩根据转子在轴上的轴向位置而变化。 该装置可以包括旁路通道以控制粘性流体的循环压力。

    VISCOUS ROTATIONAL SPEED CONTROL DEVICE
    57.
    发明申请
    VISCOUS ROTATIONAL SPEED CONTROL DEVICE 有权
    VISCOUS旋转速度控制装置

    公开(公告)号:US20160201744A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-14

    申请号:US14986338

    申请日:2015-12-31

    Abstract: A rotational speed control device includes a housing containing a viscous fluid, a shaft disposed in the housing and rotatable relative to the housing, a hub assembly secured to the shaft for rotation with the shaft, and a rotor coupled with the shaft by a frictional engagement with the hub assembly. A spring is disposed in the housing and acts on the rotor to bias the rotor axially on the shaft in a low torque direction. A braking torque between the rotor and the housing is varied according to an axial position of the rotor on the shaft.

    Abstract translation: 旋转速度控制装置包括容纳粘性流体的壳体,设置在壳体中并相对于壳体可旋转的轴;固定到轴上以与轴一起旋转的轮毂组件,以及通过摩擦接合与轴连接的转子 与轮毂组件。 弹簧设置在壳体中并且作用在转子上以在低扭矩方向轴向偏置轴上的转子。 转子和壳体之间的制动力矩根据转子在轴上的轴向位置而变化。

    Integrated retarder and friction brake
    58.
    发明授权
    Integrated retarder and friction brake 有权
    集成缓速器和摩擦制动器

    公开(公告)号:US08910758B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-16

    申请号:US13424086

    申请日:2012-03-19

    CPC classification number: B60T1/062 F16D55/36 F16D2121/04

    Abstract: A brake assembly integrates both an impeller brake and a friction brake into an integrated brake assembly that provides for retarding and/or friction braking in response to a single braking action on a single brake assembly by the operator. In neutral, the impeller brake and the friction brake are disengaged from a brake hub. In a first braking position under a first applied fluid pressure, the brake hub engages the impeller brake for retarding axle rotation. In a second braking position under a second applied fluid pressure, the brake hub frictionally engages the friction brake for frictionally braking axle rotation.

    Abstract translation: 制动组件将叶轮制动器和摩擦制动器都集成到一体的制动组件中,该制动组件响应于操作者在单个制动器组件上的单个制动动作而提供延迟和/或摩擦制动。 在空档中,叶轮制动器和摩擦制动器与制动轮毂分离。 在第一施加的流体压力下的第一制动位置中,制动毂与叶轮制动器接合,用于延迟轴的旋转。 在第二施加的流体压力下的第二制动位置,制动轮毂摩擦地接合摩擦制动器以摩擦地制动车轴旋转。

    Freewheeling rotary damping mechanism
    59.
    发明授权
    Freewheeling rotary damping mechanism 有权
    续流旋转阻尼机构

    公开(公告)号:US08899390B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-02

    申请号:US13765358

    申请日:2013-02-12

    CPC classification number: F16F9/3207 A47B46/00 B64D11/003 F16F9/145

    Abstract: A damping mechanism that includes a housing with an inner circumferential surface defined by an assembly outer race, an axle shaft that is rotatable with respect to the housing, and a transmission assembly operatively associated with the axle shaft and disposed within the housing. The transmission assembly includes an assembly intermediate race. A fluid space that includes fluid therein is defined between the assembly intermediate race and the inner circumferential surface of the assembly outer race. A vane is disposed between the assembly intermediate race and the inner circumferential surface of the assembly outer race. The vane includes a restriction space defined therein. When the axle shaft rotates in the first direction, the transmission assembly transmits rotation from the axle shaft to the vane, and when the axle shaft rotates in the second direction, the transmission assembly transmits less rotation to the first vane than when the axle shaft rotates in the first direction.

    Abstract translation: 一种阻尼机构,包括具有由组件外座圈限定的内圆周表面的壳体,可相对于所述壳体旋转的车轴,以及与所述车轴一起操作地配置并设置在所述壳体内的变速器组件。 传动组件包括组合中间座圈。 在组件中间座圈和组件外圈的内圆周表面之间限定包括流体的流体空间。 叶片设置在组装中间座圈和组件外圈的内周面之间。 叶片包括其中限定的限制空间。 当车轴沿第一方向旋转时,传动组件将转轴从轴轴传递到叶片,并且当车轴沿第二方向旋转时,传动组件相对于第一叶片的旋转少于当车轴旋转时 在第一个方向。

    DAMPER
    60.
    发明申请
    DAMPER 审中-公开
    阻尼器

    公开(公告)号:US20120175204A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-07-12

    申请号:US13394728

    申请日:2010-09-02

    Abstract: The invention relates to a damper for damping a rotational or linear movement of a component, preferably a component moveably mounted in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, having a damper housing, characterized in that at least one illumination source and/or at least one sensor, as well as an electrical connecting device for connecting the illumination source or the sensor to an electrical supply, are integrated into the damper housing.

    Abstract translation: 本发明涉及一种阻尼器,用于阻尼具有阻尼器壳体的部件,优选可移动地安装在机动车辆的乘客舱中的部件的旋转或线性运动,其特征在于,至少一个照明源和/或至少一个 传感器以及用于将照明源或传感器连接到电源的电连接装置被集成到阻尼器壳体中。

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