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US 8,527,161 B2Granted
Vehicle with transmission cooling system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsReid Alan Baldwin, John Edward Brevick
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a control circuit for a vehicle transmission cooling system having a controller configured to control an air compressor to selectively pressurize a transmission clutch housing and provide air to an alternative vehicle subsystem (or subsystems).
Claims11
A vehicle comprising:
- a dry-clutch transmission;
- an air compressor configured to selectively pressurize a clutch housing of the transmission;
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- a controller configured to control the distribution of air between the compressor and clutch housing and receive data related to a battery load capacity and restrict compressor operation based on battery load;
- wherein the air compressor is in fluid communication with an alternative vehicle subsystem.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.