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US 8,936,531 B2Granted
Stop-in-park control for micro-hybrid vehicles
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsSangeetha Sangameswaran, Mathew Alan Boesch, J. Anthony Lockwood, George Edmund Walley
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Abstract
A stop/start system of a micro-hybrid vehicle may selectively initiate an engine auto start in response to a PRNDL gear lever/transmission being moved/shifted out of DRIVE after an engine auto stop and a determination that the vehicle is located, for example, in an intersection or railroad crossing prior to the PRNDL gear lever/transmission being moved/shifted into REVERSE.
Claims7
A method for controlling a stop/start vehicle comprising:
- in response to a transmission being shifted out of DRIVE after an engine has been auto stopped, selectively initiating an auto start of the engine prior to the transmission being shifted into a gear other than DRIVE based on a location of the vehicle.
A stop/start vehicle comprising:
- an engine;
- a transmission;
- and
- a stop/start system programmed to, in response to the transmission being shifted out of DRIVE after the engine has been auto stopped, selectively initiate an auto start of the engine prior to the transmission being shifted into a gear other than DRIVE based on a location of the vehicle.
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A stop/start vehicle comprising:
- an engine;
- a PRNDL gear lever;
- and
- a stop/start system programmed to, in response to the PRNDL gear lever being moved out of DRIVE after the engine has been auto stopped and the vehicle being located in an intersection or railroad crossing, initiate an auto start of the engine prior to the PRNDL gear lever being moved into REVERSE.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.