Patent ID: 8160792
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: F16D,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A clutch failure detection system comprising: a clutch actuation mechanism for changing relative positions of a drive-side member and a driven-side member of a clutch; a position detector for detecting a position of the clutch actuation mechanism as a clutch position; a torque obtaining section for obtaining torque transmitted from the drive-side member to a downstream mechanism in a torque transmission path as transmission torque, the downstream mechanism including the driven-side member; and a failure detecting section for detecting a failure of the clutch based on the transmission torque and the clutch position, wherein the failure detecting section obtains the clutch position and the transmission torque at a plurality of times in a process that the clutch is switched from a disengaged state to an engaged state and classifies a plurality of data, that are each based upon the obtained clutch position and the transmission torque at one of the plurality of times, into one of a plurality of regions including a first region and a second region, when a predetermined number of data are classified into the plurality of regions the failure detecting section