EDDY CURRENT BRAKE EQUIPMENT WITH TORQUE ESTIMATION

摘要

The equipment includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly adapted to be mounted on a transmission shaft of a vehicle, one of said assemblies including inductor windings and the other including an armature facing the inductor windings. The equipment further includes excitation means for selectively exciting the inductor windings from an electricity source of the vehicle in response to a power supply feed setting. Processor means are provided to estimate the braking torque that the equipment can provide as a function of the speed of rotation of the rotor assembly, of the temperature of the armature, and of the temperature of the inductor windings, and of at least one value for the power feed setting.