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US 8,380,416 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for controlling brake-steer in an automotive vehicle in reverse
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsTimothy G. Offerle, Hongtei E. Tseng, Douglas S. Rhode, Gregory P. Brown
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Abstract
A system and method of controlling an automotive vehicle includes generating a reverse direction signal corresponding to a reverse direction of the vehicle and generating brake-steer in response to the reverse direction signal.
Claims7
A vehicle comprising:
- a shift lever having a reverse position generating a reverse position signal;
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- a controller coupled to the shift lever, said controller applying brake-steer in response to the reverse position signal, with said vehicle further comprising a transfer case having a transfer case mode, said controller changing the transfer case mode based on brake-steer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.