Transmission control system
AssigneeMassey-Ferguson-Perkins Limited
InventorAnthony Clubley Armstrong
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Abstract
Control system for a variable performance torque converter on a vehicle which has a number of auxiliary services such as brakes or cylinders served by a power source driven by the vehicle engine includes an actuator operating a control element on the torque converter in response to signalling means connected to the auxiliary services to proportion power from the engine between the torque converter and the power source for the auxiliaries.
Claims11
In a vehicle having an engine, a tractive drive with at least one wheel, a selectively variable torque converter driven by said engine, said torque converter being connected to said driven wheel or wheels said torque converter having a control element for varying the torque of the converter, at least one auxiliary service including a pump directly driven by said engine, the improvement comprising a control system having an actuator operatively connected to and operable on the control element, and a conduit interconnecting said auxiliary service and actuator to position the control element with said actuator upon said conduit transmitting a signal from said auxiliary service to said actuator and thereby proportion the power from the engine between the tractive drive and said auxiliary service.
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