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US 10,851,731 B2Granted
Method for controlling a delivery of driving torque of a combustion engine of an agricultural tractor
AssigneeFpt Industrial S.P.A.
InventorsSalvatore Musumeci, Simon Porter
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Abstract
A method for controlling a delivery of driving torque of an engine of an agricultural tractor comprising a first step of monitoring a speed of said engine, and when said speed is stable, comprising a second step of maintaining it subsequently stable by compensating a load variation applied to the engine. The invention also concerns a fuel injection system implementing the above method.
Claims10
A method for controlling a delivery of driving torque of a combustion engine of an agricultural tractor comprising:
- a first step (Step 1) of monitoring a speed of said engine;
- a second step (Step 2) of determining whether said speed is stable around a stable speed value (Sp) of the engine by comparison of said speed or a value derived therefrom to a predefined threshold;
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- a third automatic step of maintaining it stable by compensating (Step 3) a load variation applied to the engine in response to a determination that said speed is stable in Step 2, said compensating comprising generating a modified torque curve starting from a rated torque curve shifting it upwards for only negative speed values—left-hand branch—with respect to said stable speed value (Sp) of the engine and/or shifting it downwards for only positive speed values—right-hand branch—with respect to said stable speed value (Sp) of the engine, said modified torque curve spaced from the rated torque curve by a distance (G), wherein, thereafter, as the engine speed moves above the stable speed value (Sp), the delivery of driving torque follows the right-hand branch of the modified torque curve, and as the engine speed moves below the stable speed value (Sp), the delivery of driving torque follows the left-hand branch of the modified torque curve.
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