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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:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ian Richard Bates, Huddersfield, GB;
Assignee:
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ; F16D / ; F15B / ; F01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
192 / ; 192 / ; 60533 ; 92 131 ;
Abstract
An actuator system (31) for controlling engagement and disengagement of an automated vehicular master clutch (C). The system includes an electric motor (86) controlled actuator (62) for precision positioning of the clutch and a pneumatically controlled override actuator (54) for rapidly disengaging the clutch, regardless of positioning of the electric motor-controlled actuator. Both the electric motor-controlled actuator and the pneumatically controlled override actuator are operated in accordance with command output signals from a system control unit (31).