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US 4,062,419 AGranted
Fuel-saving traveling system for an internal combustion engine-driven vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasahiro Kadota
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AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasahiro Kadota
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A fuel-saving traveling system for an internal combustion engine-driven vehicle has a one-way clutch in the drive train allowing the wheels to overrun the engine. A fuel-saving traveling system for an internal combustion engine-driven vehicle, wherein a vehicle provided with an internal combustion engine travels on a flat and smooth road in such a manner that the said internal combustion engine is started from lower speed than the average speed specified in advance for the said vehicle, to be thus driven at high load, and, after the speed of the vehicle reaches a higher level of speed than the said average speed, the said internal combustion engine is stopped and the said vehicle is caused to travel in a drifting state by means of the one-way clutch incorporated in the driving system of the said internal combustion engine-driven vehicle, then, when the speed of the vehicle is slowed down to a lower level than the said average speed, the engine is started again, whereby the said cycle is repeated over and over again.
A fuel-saving traveling system for an internal combustion engine-driven wheeled vehicle having an accelerator pedal, comprising:
A fuel-saving traveling system for an internal combustion engine-driven wheeled vehicle having an accelerator pedal, a torque converter, a one-way clutch for transmitting the driving force therefor only from the side of the engine and allowing free rotation of the driven side when the number of revolutions of the driven side is in excess of the number of revolutions of the driving side, said one-way clutch being between an output shaft of a transmission gear and a sleeve yoke of a propeller shaft, and means, actuated by the accelerator pedal, for automatically starting and stopping the engine respectively, by the application of pressure on, and relief of the pressure from, the accelerator pedal, whereby, at the time of traveling of the said vehicle down a slope or in the state of drifting, although the engine is automatically stopped by relieving the pressure off the accelerator pedal, the said vehicle still remains in the state of continuing its travel.
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