Warm-up oil management strategy
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsMichael A Holland, Clayton P. Neumann, Greg R. Long
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Abstract
A hydraulic system of a work vehicle includes a recirculation valve which may be closed during a warm-up mode of operation so that conditioning hydraulic fluid from a conditioning hydraulic fluid pump flows through a high pressure relief valve to a conditioning hydraulic fluid reservoir and recirculates from the conditioning hydraulic fluid reservoir back to the conditioning hydraulic fluid pump. Subsequent to the warm-up mode of operation, the recirculation valve may be opened so that conditioning hydraulic fluid from the conditioning hydraulic fluid pump flows through a low pressure relief valve to a main hydraulic fluid reservoir.
Claims18
A work vehicle, comprising:
- first and second vehicle drivetrain components;
- a main hydraulic fluid reservoir;
- a conditioning hydraulic fluid reservoir;
- a variable flow conditioning hydraulic fluid source configured to intake conditioning hydraulic fluid from the conditioning hydraulic fluid reservoir and provide the conditioning hydraulic fluid under pressure to a conditioning hydraulic fluid discharge line;
- a control manifold including first and second control valves configured to control flow of the conditioning hydraulic fluid from the conditioning hydraulic fluid discharge line to the first and second drivetrain components, respectively, to lubricate and cool the first and second drivetrain components;
- a filter disposed in the conditioning hydraulic fluid discharge line;
- a filter bypass configured to flow the conditioning hydraulic fluid through the conditioning hydraulic fluid discharge line without passing the conditioning hydraulic fluid through the filter when a pressure differential across the filter exceeds a set pressure differential value;
- a low pressure relief valve configured to communicate the conditioning hydraulic fluid discharge line with the main hydraulic fluid reservoir;
- a high pressure relief valve configured to communicate the conditioning hydraulic fluid discharge line with the conditioning hydraulic fluid reservoir;
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- a recirculation valve configured to selectively block flow through the low pressure relief valve and thereby cause flow from the conditioning hydraulic fluid discharge line to flow through the high pressure relief valve to the conditioning hydraulic fluid reservoir.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.