The invention discloses a double-acting
retarder, which comprises a frame, a speed changer and a transmission shaft, and the double-acting
retarder is characterized in that an output shaft of a speed changing box is connected with a
cam and a
brake disc body, two sides of the
cam and the
brake disc body are respectively and symmetrically provided with a
plunger pump, the
plunger pumps are connected with a heat radiating
oil tank through an oil inlet
pipe with a one-way valve A, the oil inlet
pipe is connected with a one-way valve B through a tee joint, the other end of the one-way valve B is connected with a
brake device through an oil outlet
pipe, the oil outlet pipe is also connected with a throttling valve through a tee joint, the throttling valve is connected with the heat
radiation oil tank through an oil return pipe, the outer side of each
plunger pump is wrapped by a brake slide groove, a thrusting
air chamber is arranged between the bottom end of each
plunger pump and the brake slide groove, the front end of each
plunger pump is provided with a guide wheel, the guide wheel is matched with the came and the brake disc body, the thrusting
air chamber is connected with an air
storage tank through a retarding switch, and both the retarding switch and the throttling valve are connected with a
control unit.