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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Keith Alan Hurlburt, Macungie, PA (US);
David Willard Howell, Macungie, PA (US);
Keith Alan Hurlburt, Macungie, PA (US);
David Willard Howell, Macungie, PA (US);
Volvo Group North America, LLC, Greensboro, NC (US);
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, Elyria, OH (US);
Abstract
A truck includes a pressurized air supply system for providing air to one of a plurality of air supply connections and a selector circuit for providing selection to one of the air supply connections. The circuit includes a first inversion valve with supply from a selector valve and control from a parking brake valve, a second inversion valve with supply from the parking brake valve and delivery to a first air supply connection, a synchro valve with supply from the parking brake valve and delivery to a second air supply connection, a double check valve with supply from the first inversion valve and the synchro valve and delivery to a control line of the second inversion valve and the synchro valve, a first trailer supply connection to the delivery line of the second inversion valve, and a second trailer supply connection to the delivery line of the synchro valve.