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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2017
Kuhn North America, Inc., Brodhead, WI (US);
Bryan Rowntree, Brodhead, WI (US);
Jacob Veeder, Browntown, WI (US);
Rodney Zimmerman, New Glarus, WI (US);
Aaron Wepner, Brodhead, WI (US);
William Bassett, Brodhead, WI (US);
Thomas J. Hoffman, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
KUHN NORTH AMERICA, INC., Brodhead, WI (US);
Abstract
A control system for mixing materials having a container to receive the materials, agitators, a driveline to drive the agitators at an output speed with an output torque, an power source to provide an input speed with an input torque, a continuously variable transmission that connects the driveline and the power source, and an electronic control unit configured to adjust a speed ratio of the continuously variable transmission to provide a linear relationship between the input torque and the output torque with a slope, when the input torque is below a control input threshold, and to follow a corrected linear relationship between the input torque and the output torque with a corrected slope smaller than the slope when the input torque is above the control input threshold.