Method and Device for Controlling a Coasting Operating Mode in a Motor Vehicle with an Internal Combustion Engine
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsGoetz-Philipp Wegner, Urs Christen, Rainer Busch, Frederic Stefan
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Abstract
A method and a device for automatically deactivating a coasting operating mode in a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine is disclosed. An activated coasting operating mode is deactivated if the current vehicle speed exceeds a threshold value. The threshold value is set as the sum of a minimum vehicle speed and of a maximum permissible increase in speed.
Claims18
A method for automatically deactivating a coasting operating mode in a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine, comprising:
- deactivating a coasting operating mode if a current vehicle speed exceeds a threshold value;
- wherein the threshold value is set as a sum of a minimum vehicle speed and a maximum permissible increase in speed.
A device for automatically deactivating a coasting operating mode in a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine (ICE) as a function of propulsion requests or braking requests of a driver of the motor vehicle, wherein the device is designed to deactivate a coasting operating mode if a vehicle speed exceeds a threshold value;
- wherein the threshold value is set as the sum of a minimum vehicle speed and a maximum permissible increase in speed.
A method of operating a vehicle in a coasting operating mode, comprising:
- activating a coasting operating mode;
- measuring vehicle speed;
- and
- deactivating the coasting operating mode when a vehicle speed is less than a minimum speed plus a predefined maximum change in speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.