Drive means for motor vehicles
First Claim
1. Drive unit for motor vehicles, comprising an internal combustion engine (1) and an automated shift gearbox, which has an input shaft drivingly joined to the engine crankshaft and which is controlled by a control means (45, 48), connected to a gear selector (46), and having a transmission control function and an engine control function, and to which are fed signals representing the selected gear and various engine and vehicle data, which comprise at least engine speed, rotational speed of the transmission input shaft and vehicle speed, characterized in that the input shaft (7) of the gearbox is coordinated with a torque sensor (60), which provides a signal dependent on the torque on said input shaft to said control meanss, and that the control means (45,48) are arranged to continuously register the current torque on the input shaft, to utilize the torque signal from the torque sensor for calculating the current vehicle motion resistance and selecting a gear on the basis of the calculated vehicle motion resistance.
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Abstract
Drive means for motor vehicles, comprising an internal combustion engine (1) and an unsynchronised autoshift gearbox (9). The clutch and the gearbox are s controlled by an electronic transmission control unit (45) which communicates with an engine control unit (48), to which are fed signals representing the selected gear from a gear selector (46) and signals representing various engine and vehicle data. The input shaft of the gearbox is coordinated with a torque sensor (60), which provides a signal dependent of the torque on the input shaft to to the transmission control unit, which is disposed to continuously register the current torque on the input shaft and utilize the torque signal from the torque sensor to calculate the current vehicle motion resistance. The gear selection is made here based on the calculated vehicle motion resistance.
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- 1. Drive unit for motor vehicles, comprising an internal combustion engine (1) and an automated shift gearbox, which has an input shaft drivingly joined to the engine crankshaft and which is controlled by a control means (45, 48), connected to a gear selector (46), and having a transmission control function and an engine control function, and to which are fed signals representing the selected gear and various engine and vehicle data, which comprise at least engine speed, rotational speed of the transmission input shaft and vehicle speed, characterized in that the input shaft (7) of the gearbox is coordinated with a torque sensor (60), which provides a signal dependent on the torque on said input shaft to said control meanss, and that the control means (45,48) are arranged to continuously register the current torque on the input shaft, to utilize the torque signal from the torque sensor for calculating the current vehicle motion resistance and selecting a gear on the basis of the calculated vehicle motion resistance.
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