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US 11,174,907 B2Granted
Forced neutral remote start-up control method and manual transmission vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsOh-Eun Kwon, Sun-Young Park
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Abstract
A forced neutral remote start-up control method is provided. The method includes performing an E-clutch neutral switching control, which confirms the presence of an E-clutch upon receiving a remote start-up request signal of an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) to form a vehicle neutral state by an E-clutch state switching before generating an engine start-up signal, and performing an engine start-up by generating the engine start-up signal after confirming the vehicle neutral state.
Claims16
A forced neutral remote start-up control method comprising:
- performing an E-clutch neutral switching control, which confirms a presence of an E-clutch upon receiving a remote start-up request signal by an Electronic Control Unit (ECU), to form a vehicle neutral state by an E-clutch state switching before generating an engine start-up signal;
- utilizing, by the ECU, characteristics capable of a failure diagnosis of the E-clutch by using an operation lever to perform disengagement switching required for the remote start-up;
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- performing an engine start-up by generating the engine start-up signal after confirming the vehicle neutral state.
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A manual transmission vehicle, comprising:
- an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) configured to performing an E-clutch neutral switching control, which confirms a presence of an E-clutch upon receiving a remote start-up request signal by the ECU, to form a vehicle neutral state by an E-clutch state switching before generating an engine start-up signal, and to utilize characteristics capable of a failure diagnosis of the E-clutch by using an operation lever to perform disengagement switching required for a remote start-up;
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- a remote start-up device configured to generate the remote start-up request signal;
- wherein the ECU is further configured to transmit a clutch disengagement signal to the E-clutch recognized in an IG. OFF state of an engine upon receiving the remote start-up request signal so that clutch engagement is switched to disengagement, and to perform an engine start-up by generating the engine start-up signal after confirming a disengagement state of the E-clutch as the vehicle neutral state;
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- wherein the E-clutch is configured to deliver and block power of the engine by engaging and disengaging, respectively, a clutch state in a control of the ECU.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.