Cnh Industrial America LLC

Cnh Industrial Italia S.p.a.

Giovanni Notarnicola

Alessandro Benevelli

Andrea Gravili

Adriano Garramone

Gianpiero Negri

Davide Cristofori

Mario Girardi

Antonio Oddo

An inching system for a vehicle having a hydrostatic transmission and an engine that drives the transmission. The transmission has a pilot pressure port with a pressure of hydraulic fluid at the pilot pressure port controlling a level of power from the transmission, a beginning of draining of the hydraulic fluid from the pilot pressure port defining an inching starting point. The system includes a brake pedal and an electrohydraulic valve coupled to the pilot pressure port of the transmission, the valve being configured to drain the hydraulic fluid at the pilot pressure port. A sensor is coupled to the pedal to detect an input from the operator, the sensor producing a signal indicative of the input from the operator. A controller receives the signal and a speed of the engine. The controller controls the electrohydraulic valve dependent upon the signal and the engine speed so that the inching starting point is unchanged regardless of the speed of the engine.

Inching system for a construction vehicle

A vehicle including a control valve to lift and lower a boom. The vehicle further includes a control circuit to control a speed of the boom lowering via a pressure compensator that balances a first pressure signal downstream of a control valve during the boom lowering and a second pressure signal from a hydraulic user interface so that, upon increasing of the first pressure signal during the boom lowering, the control valve progressively closes.

Vehicle with a boom comprising a hydraulic control circuit with a load control valve

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Putignano, Italy

Giovanni Notarnicola