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AssigneeFras-Le S.A.
InventorsJoel Boaretto, César Augusto Cardoso Teixeira de Albuquerque Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Michelin Beraldo, Cassiano Henrique Pereira, Eugenio Noro
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A commercial automotive vehicle, such as trucks and buses, having an auxiliary shaft associated with an auxiliary engine, a coupling and/or uncoupling device and a method for controlling the coupling and/or uncoupling between a shaft of commercial automotive vehicles and an auxiliary engine associated with the shaft. Specifically, the vehicle has a device that couples and/or decouples the effects of at least one auxiliary engine to a shaft, allowing that, in a coupled state, the shaft receives auxiliary traction from the auxiliary engine or the auxiliary engine acts as a generator of braking energy in a regenerative way and, in a decoupled state, it allows the shaft to rotate freely so that no energy losses occur due to friction of the device components.
A coupling and/or decoupling device between a shaft of commercial automotive vehicles and at least one auxiliary engine, wherein the auxiliary engine is arranged adjacent to the shaft of the commercial automotive vehicle, said device comprising at least one mechanism that couples and/or decouples the transmission of torque between the at least one auxiliary engine and a free-shaft differential assembly, wherein a control system sends at least one signal for coupling and/or decoupling the transmission of torque between the at least one auxiliary engine and a free shaft differential assembly, wherein the mechanism that couples and/or decouples the torque transmission comprises at least one actuator connected with at least one displacement shaft and at least one motion transmission fork connected to the at least one displacement shaft.
A method of controlling the coupling and/or decoupling between a shaft of commercial automotive vehicles and at least one auxiliary engine arranged adjacent to the shaft, said method comprising a coupling and/or decoupling device between the shaft and the auxiliary engine equipped with a free differential assembly and a control system of the device, said method comprising the steps of:
A commercial automotive vehicle comprising at least one shaft associated with at least one auxiliary engine equipped with a reducer assembly associated with a differential, wherein the differential is a free differential assembly, being associated with the shaft and associated with at least one torque transmission coupling and/or decoupling device between said auxiliary motor and the shaft, wherein the coupling and/or decoupling is in response to at least one signal sent by a control system of the device, wherein the at least one torque transmission coupling and/or decoupling device comprises a mechanism for coupling and/or decoupling the torque transmission comprising an actuator connected with a displacement shaft and a motion transmission fork connected to the displacement shaft, said actuator displacing the motion transmission fork by means of the displacement shaft.
An auxiliary shaft for commercial automotive vehicle powered by energy in a regenerative manner, comprising at least one auxiliary engine equipped with a reducer assembly which is associated with the auxiliary shaft through at least one free differential assembly, said differential being associated to at least one torque transmission coupling and/or decoupling device between said auxiliary motor and the shaft, in response to at least one signal sent by a control system of the device, wherein the at least one torque transmission coupling and/or decoupling device comprises a mechanism for coupling and/or decoupling the torque transmission comprising an actuator connected with a displacement shaft and a motion transmission fork connected to the displacement shaft, said actuator displacing the motion transmission fork by means of the displacement shaft.
A method of controlling for operating an auxiliary engine in commercial automotive vehicles, wherein the auxiliary engine operates as i) auxiliary traction, ii) regeneration and iii) freewheeling, the method comprising a step of coupling/decoupling the auxiliary engine to at least one shaft of the commercial automotive vehicle, wherein:
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