Improved Differential Function for Avoiding Slippage of Motor Vehicles in a Muddy Trench

2002-01-0988

03/04/2002

Event
SAE 2002 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Vehicles such as trucks, buses and cars often get struck up in muddy trenches or in snow with one of wheels in the trench and the other on level ground. With an open differential, driver's effort to pull the vehicle out normally ends up with one wheel, which is rotating still going deeper into the trench. Until now Limited Slip Differentials (LSD), Locked Differentials and Viscous Coupling etc. have been used to overcome this difficulty but with limited success.
Incorporating logic devices has developed a novel solution to this problem and the traction on the required wheel is achieved automatically. The system works independently of the conventional brakes.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2002-01-0988
Pages
6
Citation
Gill, S., Kalsi, N., Singh, B., Singh, N. et al., "Improved Differential Function for Avoiding Slippage of Motor Vehicles in a Muddy Trench," SAE Technical Paper 2002-01-0988, 2002, https://doi.org/10.4271/2002-01-0988.
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Published
Mar 4, 2002
Product Code
2002-01-0988
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English