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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
William F Cote, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Donald Speranza, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36442401 ; 192-0033 ; 74866 ;
Abstract
A method for controlling an AMT system (10) is provided including sensing and identifying faulty input signals (ES, IS, OS) from the engine speed sensor (28), the input shaft speed sensor (32) and/or the output shaft speed sensor (36) and, if only one of the speed signals (ES, IS or OS) is faulty, modifying the logic method of control (42) to a logic method tolerant of the identified faulty input signal.