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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2004
Applicants:
Kurt A. Ringger, Bluffton, IN (US);
John F. Rotz, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Mark A. Thurber, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Inventors:
Kurt A. Ringger, Bluffton, IN (US);
John F. Rotz, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Mark A. Thurber, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Assignee:
International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC, Warrenville, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A gearshift to transmission controller interface is based on a controller area network and a gearshift interface interposed between the gearshift and associated displays and the network bus. The shift controller can be made universal to all transmission types of automated manual transmissions by incorporation of a library program relating to a transmission type.