US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment on Sept. 16 for "Dynamic braking torque split for optimal thermal management" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,488, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC (Denison, Texas).

"Dynamic braking torque split for optimal thermal management" was invented by Karl P Schneider (Decatur, Ill.) and Joel Skalet (Chillicothe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Typically, mobile equipment with axles has a mechanically fixed or constant split ratio for the braking torque that is applied to each axle. Disclosed embodiments dynamically adjust the braking torque ratio between axles based on real-time parameter values, such as requested braking power and a real-time brake state parameter (e.g., brake temperatures), to more ...