Patent ID: 9689484
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: B60K,B60Y,F16H,G05G

Claim:
1. A differential control system for a motor vehicle having driving wheels, drive shafts to transmit driving power from the motor to the driving wheels and at least one differential to interconnect drive shafts, the differential control system comprising at least one differential lock which is able to operate the differential into a locking configuration where the differential is operated into at least a locked or an unlocked state, a controller that: controls the differential lock, a manually operable control member freely rotating bidirectionally around at least one axis such that the position of the control member is independent from the locking configuration, and an encoder connected to the control member to convert a rotation of the control member into a signal fed to the controller which controls the differential lock in order to operate the differential into a locked or an unlocked state.