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Title:
CONTROL SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3429439
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tone wheel being attocbably detachable without disassembling a crankshaft by installing this tone wheel consisting of first and second separatable bowed ring segments including an indicator, in a crankshaft web, and setting up a sensor assembly in close vicinity to this tone wheel.
SOLUTION: A tone wheel 80 consisting of first and second bowed ring segments 82 and 92 including an indicator spreading over the specified angle around a turning shaft is installed in a crankshaft web 72a in a crankshaft 60. This indicator is formed of two peripheral teeth 83 and 93 constituted so as to alter a magnetic field. In order to offer a sensor signal corresponding to a rotational characteristics of the crankshaft 60, a sensor assembly 46 detecting the indicator is installed in close vicinity to this tone wheel 80, and as a function of the sensor signal being outputted from this assembly 46, a control signal is generated out of a controller 40.


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Inventors:
Steve Antscliff
Al Schuppe
Brian Jay McKinley
Application Number:
JP26562197A
Publication Date:
July 22, 2003
Filing Date:
September 30, 1997
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Cummins Engine Company, Incorporated
International Classes:
G01B7/30; F02D35/00; F02D41/34; F02D45/00; G01B7/00; G01P3/488; (IPC1-7): F02D35/00; F02D45/00; G01B7/30
Domestic Patent References:
JP7287025A
JP57192870A
JP6101559A
JP56151311A
JP1280663A
JP59170270U
JP7507615A
JP7500164A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kazuo Shamoto (4 outside)