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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Volvo Truck Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;
Inventors:
Lionel Farres, Heyrieux, FR;
Mattias Holmberg, Jamestown, NC (US);
Assignee:
Volvo Truck Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 13/26 (2006.01); B60D 1/24 (2006.01); B60D 1/64 (2006.01); B60T 13/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 13/263 (2013.01); B60D 1/64 (2013.01); B60T 13/662 (2013.01); B60D 1/246 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a pneumatic system for a truck having a first pair of couplers, typically gladhand couplers and a second pair of couplers, typically gladhand couplers, with only one pair used at a time for coupling a trailer, the system being able to detect which pair of glad hands a trailer is connected to. The present disclosure also relates to a truck comprising a pneumatic system according to the invention and a method carried out in a pneumatic system according to the invention.