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US 10,859,016 B2Granted
Methods and system for diagnosing belt slip of an engine front end accessory drive
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsM. Scott Christensen, Michael Bastanipour, Nicholas Herhusky
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Abstract
Systems and methods for detecting and mitigating belt slip of an engine front end accessory drive are described. In one example, three different signals are input to a weighted average filter to determine the presence or absence of belt slip so that quality of an indication of belt slip may be improved.
Claims14
An engine operating method, comprising:
- indicating a belt slippage via a controller, the belt slippage indicated responsive to a weighted average of a first moment of inertia threshold being crossed, a second moment of inertia threshold being crossed, and an audible signal amplitude or power level threshold being crossed;
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- adjusting operation of a machine responsive to the indication of belt slippage.
A system, comprising:
- an engine including an integrated starter/generator;
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- a controller including executable instructions stored in non-transitory memory to adjust operation of the engine responsive to an indication of belt slippage provided via a weighted average filter included within the controller, the weighted average filter including inputs for an audible signal amplitude or power level being crossed and a first moment of inertia threshold being crossed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.