Hydraulic Assistance System offers driveability to trailers.
Press Release Summary:
Hydraulic assistance system can deliver driveability to wheels of trailers used in agriculture, construction and public works. It features joystick for operator assistance inside cabin and display unit for visualization in real time. Unit consists of hydraulic motors integrated into wheels, valves and hydraulic pump, controlled by computer and electronic sensors. Convoy does not require to be stopped to activate or deactivate assistance.
Original Press Release:
Poclain Hydraulics Offers a New Assistance System to Improve the Driveability of Trailers
20 April 2009
Poclain Hydraulics has developed a hydraulic assistance system capable of delivering driveability to the wheels of trailers used in agriculture, construction and public works. By improving the distribution of available power to the wheels of the tractor and its trailer, the assistance system boosts the driveability of the trailer.
This assistance system consists of hydraulic motors integrated into the wheels, valves and a hydraulic pump, controlled by a computer and electronic sensors. The operator easily controls the assistance from the cabin using a joystick and visualises the state of the system in real time via a display unit. The convoy does not need to be stopped to activate or deactivate the assistance.
The benefits of this system to clients include:
Greater off-road capacity
o By increasing the driveability of fully loaded trailers on rugged, muddy or slopping terrain.
Greater safety
o By guaranteeing the trajectory of the trailer during descents and thus its safety thanks to the hydraulic assistance's restraining capacity.
Greater productivity / economic gain
The assistance enables operators to achieve savings in fuel and to reduce their investments
o By increasing the trailer's payload without increasing the tractor's power;
o By enabling the same payload to be shifted while reducing the required power of the tractor.
The manufacturer of Gourdon trailers has already equipped its BT 18/25 trailer with the new assistance system. In this instance, the system also controls the lifting of the container.
