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US 10,479,360 B1Granted
Systems and methods for idle coasting management of a vehicle having predictive cruise control
AssigneeCummins Inc.
InventorsJoseph R. Dynes, Daniel Reed Dempsey, Kenneth M. Follen, Howard Robert Frost, Oruganti Prashanth Sharma, Ian Fredrick Lowry, Nathanael G. Long
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Abstract
A system, method, and apparatus includes management of coasting during operation of a vehicle equipped with a predictive cruise control system.
Claims10
A method comprising:
- operating a vehicle including an engine that is selectively engageable to a driveline;
- monitoring, with a predictive cruise control module, a speed of the vehicle and a grade of terrain upon which the vehicle is operated;
- with predictive cruise control of the speed being inactive, operating the vehicle in an idle coasting management mode with the driveline disengaged from the engine in response to at least one idle coasting management enablement condition being present;
- and
- with predictive cruise control of the speed being active, disabling the idle coasting management mode of operation of the vehicle.
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A method for controlling a vehicle including an engine and a driveline selectively engageable with the engine, the engine being operable to provide a speed of the vehicle, the method comprising:
- determining that a predictive cruise control mode of operation is active or inactive;
- in response to the predictive cruise control mode of operation being inactive, selectively disengaging the driveline from the engine to provide idle coasting of the vehicle in response to one or more idle coasting management enablement conditions being present;
- and
- in response to the predictive cruise control mode of operation being active, preventing disengagement of the driveline from the engine in response to idle coasting management enablement conditions being present.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.