Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Clutch control
Patent
1998-02-04
2000-11-21
Louis-Jacques, Jacques H.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Clutch control
701 68, 701 66, 477174, 477180, 477176, 192 33, 192103F, G06F 1700, B60K 4102
Patent
active
061515442
ABSTRACT:
The control method comprises the stages of: generating a reference torque signal, the instantaneous value of which indicates the desired value of the torque transmitted through the clutch; generating a reaction signal correlated to the position of an actuating member of the clutch, the position of the actuating member being comprised between a first end-of-travel position in which the clutch is completely open and a second end-of-travel position in which the clutch is completely closed; generating an estimated torque signal, the instantaneous value of which indicates the estimated value of the torque transmitted through the clutch, on the basis of the reaction signal and a transmissibility function of the clutch; and generating a control signal for adjusting the position of the clutch as a function of the reference torque signal and the estimated torque signal. The method comprises, moreover, the stage of updating the transmissibility function of the clutch during operation of the clutch (for example at acceleration of the vehicle) so as to adapt it to the variations, over time, in the mechanical characteristics of the clutch itself.
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European Search Report dated May 13, 1998 Appln. No. 98101840.1--2315--.
Amisano Fabrizio
Seminara Massimo
Louis-Jacques Jacques H.
Magneti Marelli S.p.A.
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